By distant moon
Date: 2009 Apr 10
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Pawns, Knights & Queens

You're probably reading this right now,
wondering how our latest exchange
will affect my words; my lines.
Curiously, I'm still not sure.
I've racked my brain, spun around
driven without watching, just thinking
arriving at a location, not sure how I got there.
I guess that's no different than with us,
can't even fully remember how we got here...
it was your fault or mine, or both, we know.
But still, we cringe at the thought of never again.
At least I do.

I want to be strong and honest,
faithful again and still have everything.
Such are the thoughts of impossibility
that plague this mind.

I guess, in the end, there's really nothing
that you or I can do to fix it.
We're just pawns.  Playing a game,
that we knew we'd lose.
We weren't sure of the rules,
we didn't know how the pieces moved,
never actually played before...
makes it hard to win a game with issues like that.
But still we played, and it was
a great game.  But in the end,
we found it too difficult to continue.

Maybe someday, far down the road,
we'll learn the intricacies of movement
on the board, how the knight can turn
in the shape of an L...L for love.
And how the queen, she can move anywhere,
do almost anything, in his eyes.
And when we know these rules,
and we play by them exactly...
perhaps then, and only then,
will we play the game again.

At least I can dream.