BACKRANK

BACKRANK

I play chess
to take my mind
off the darkness

but the light squares
they blind me
and I fall into the void
that is
a black square

and the pieces glower
at me when
they are captured because
I was begligent
or blundered into a mistake

but I am determined
that however long it takes
I will have
my first victory

even if I have
to sacrifice everyrhing
i cpuld or might have
been
to win that
single little game