MATE

MATE

I sacrificed my queen
in order to
mate you

a checkmate can be
a poem, bars of
beautiful music
a dance faultkessly
choreographed

and my queen
back in the box
linchpin of the attack that
left my
ppponent devastated

no one
ready for the sudden
unleashing of my
tactical
tour-de-force

and you
so gracious in defeat

we ran through those moves
until it was the case
she would never forget them

I sacrificed my queen
finding a beautiful forced mate