Queen's,
Knight's Pawn
She doesn't have to
debate you or hate you to checkmate you.
It's not an act. It's how she
reacts to an attack, particularly when stabbed in the back. For her trust is a bust. There are too many
liars and too many town criers that spread words never heard just to entice the
mice that gobble down any news to muse.
Some say that she has a short fuse.
Reality is what she has to muse to discern or she will burn. It is something that many dead leaders have
not learned. Her enemies are to be spurned.
She doesn't think twice
about being nice for there are too many villains in the village who are ready
to rape and pillage. She has no time to
wine and dine. She must be diligent. She must be vigilant. Even her friends will do her in and those who
want her the most attempt to stay close.
Even to her own dismay she finds herself drifting away with the thoughts
with which she is fraught. There are two
too many wars that she has fought. There
are two too many battles with which she's been saddled and there are two too many
knights that are ready to fight with which to feel her to kill her.
Some say that a woman
so smart has to be involved with dark art.
They say that she has a smell that can cast a spell. They say the she has a tail sewn from the
demons of hell. They don't know that
it's her people that she doesn't want to neglect. They don't know that she has a feel for the
battlefield and will not yield. They
don't know that she studies the border to maintain order. This is why she is never bored. She always studies the chess board. She prepares for the slaughter brought on by
angry marauders with which to stop them in their tracks with every attack. Her movements tend to be exact. She has learned to watch her back.
The enemy often yawns
when it sees the pawn, laughing at the gaffe, ridiculing the duel and thinking
the queen to be a fool. Like a magician
she gets them out of position. It's hard
to kill what you cannot see and it's hard to retreat when there's nowhere to
flee. Never is she tender when it comes
to their surrender. It's because of the
queen's, knight's pawn that she uses without debate to checkmate hate.
Orrin K. Loftin,
Explorer
Copyright? When she's fraught with the thought of wars
yet to be fought.
Dedicated to Willie
E. Loftin
October 1st,
2013
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