Dreams of Chess

Wake up...

Formulated routine

A courtesy and a dance

To symbolically 

Lift burden of despair 

From here to nowhere

Engraving a trail

Deeply embedded 

It severs roots that sustain

A discomforting reminder 

Numb to yesterday's events

Where once time befriended opportunity 

Where patience could gain understanding 

In being set adrift

Revoking an soothing delight 

Art of imagination 

A desertion multifaceted 

With abnormal complexities 

Truth hides in the shadows

Abandoned transparency 

Sails upon an  oceans full of doubt

Echos of the voiceless

Pierces the spirit

As the bootstraps have broken

Pleading for just an acknowledgement 

Me too move 

To allow aching bones a moment of...

Equality 

Before time approaches 

To resynchronize the pieces

Playing a game birth

Never informed the nation it played

Until the wrappings loosened on the mummy's 

And the Queen & Kings realized

They were reduced pawns in...

Dreams of Chess