This is in the same vein as my other poem, Gaol, though hopefully this one will get more feedback! I'm not sure it's as strong as the other, but there were bits about it I really liked, once they were written.
CHESS IS FOR LOVERS
So, my dear, appears we have a
stalemate in the remnants of the board;
You and I have stricken gold, turned
the powers that be to glare and bloody sparks.
I don't question (never have done)
but I can refuse to answer, silent
witness to a spiral you inflict
upon yourself. My belief in
faith and reason does me justice,
but to you, become the thing
you always knew I would deny.
My head is up, my hands entwined
in fists, but not untouched; no,
I am the source of all that I have done
and as such lose whatever you will be.
I move, no longer knight or bishop,
but a tower with a beating basalt heart;
strike not against my walls, O ivy soul
lest in doing so your stinging breaks us all.
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