Life, in game terms

Life, in Game Terms

Enthusiasm ebbing
Reality dawns
The ride will soon be over
Power plays
Depend on bluff and bluster
Folding not an option
Opponent drawing
To an infrastructure supported
Inside straight
The deck is stacked
The game is rigged
But the means to play
Still rests in control
Of a simple chess piece
Once a pawn achieves
Knight or Bishop status
In the external community
Building value via
Plans to establish castles
(Attempting not to get rooked)
Reaching the seventh rank
Bypassing en passant
Near to the pinnacles
Yet no choice to be king
Upon reaching the eighth
Just another tool
Enabling the downfall
Of the opposition's flag

(c) 2004 lemme howdt