literature

Chess

Deviation Actions

Published: Feb 17, 2013

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_{Timid citizens line the black and white cobbled streets,
Crossing and zigzagging between haughty knights and righteous bishops,
While rooks are more polite, and assist the meek ones, almost like pawns,
As the king looks on, neither wrathful nor greedy,
Standing tall over his kingdom graciously.
But, there is one: a volatile queen,
Vicious, fickle, impulsive;
Impeding upon boundaries that are outlined for the other members in her sacred circle—
Murdering the enemies with her eyes, instead of intent, or action,
She burns through rules and ridicules those who are imprisoned
Yet she lets out a suffering lament once the evening calls upon this dark queen,
She is beautiful, illustrious, illuminate. But the pure woman, her rival,
The one whose skin speaks of softened snow and sanded sea glass,
The one whose crown is crafted of lilies and feathers rather than sharp iron, gilded with pitch
And reminiscent of a black border fence—does her own limitation lie in this very symbol of her power?
While the beauteous white longs to become one with the night, to be harsh and firm,
The shadowy queen wishes to burn aglow like the moon—
Alas, covetous queens cannot capture or conceive the ideal
That they themselves can never be what their opposite is; what they desire, what they want
And so forever it will haunt, and ever more will their endeavors consume them slowly,
As envy wraps around their voluptuous frames and constricts
Deeming them unholy.}