PIECES

PIECES

to be
   or not to be

they will
not tell you

what could be
good move
never
  mind best move

not a whisper
even a
    glimpse or
hint

Knight, Queen, Knight
Pawn

kept under wraps
kept to themselves

just waiting for you to
hit the pitfall, move
without
    seeing

odds so long against
pulling a Kasparov Carlsen
Fischer worthy gem
out of the hat

magic rabbit
of a combination

plan
     (if that
be the word) not
as solid
     as it seems, something
outside all
that you schemed walking
in through sudden
doorway
       unpredicted
       unobserved

asking you how
you going to get
       out of this catastrophe
needing
     strategy, fluidity,
flexability

your
    calculations so
wooden

in Hamlet were chess
this would be the question