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Open Poetry #46

Game of Chess

zeusthamghty
Junior Member

since 2010-06-20

Posts 45
west virginia, usa

0 posted 2010-06-21 01:43 PM

kinda long but also from about 10 years ago.

On this dark and lonely night,
Nothing is going on.
No one is here
To comfort my fears.
No one knows
What I’m going through.
But as for my fears,
They are still here.
It is quiet but
There are so many sounds,
But not a one that I want to hear.
I want to hear your voice
Although you aren’t even around.
You have never been so far away
But, yet have never been so close.
Nothing that I do
Will ever change
The fact that I love you.
Nothing will ever change me.
Because I am but a pawn
In this game of chess.
My heart is the king
And my mind is the queen.
But the key to this game
Is not to win but is to loose.
My queen has already been taken
And I am but one move away
From checkmate.
I am uncertain
Of what move I should take.
I see the move
And take the chance.
And as I sit in checkmate
I realize that I have lost it all,
And that love has prevailed.
That is what always happens
In this game of chess.

easy1
Senior Member

since 2010-05-22

Posts 1209
Southeastern USA

1 posted 2010-06-22 08:33 AM

Very interesting and thought-provoking (no pun intended). Almost like two poems, one for loneliness and the sounds, and one for the excellent chess/love analogy. I'd wish to read a newer version with the two more connected, perhaps by a few bishop's long-slanting words, or some knight hopskips between forward and back lines...

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