Chess-piece of the gods
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
My whole world is a giant chessboard
Where the gods have their evening games
All my characters are chess pieces
And all my moves are calibrated
I am mostly a pawn
And helpless as a newborn fawn
My job is to be traded and bargained
The perfect sacrificial lamb
Other times I am a horse
Ridden at anyone's behest
Denied a straight path through life
They plain horse me around
Sometimes I am a bishop
With the cloth, holier than thou
But my piety is ridden roughshod
To protect those that lord it over me
I was once, a long time ago, a castle
Strong and well founded
But after years of heavy battering
I now lie in ruins
Someday I hope to be a queen
And enjoy the freedom of being
But for so long now
That has remained just a hope
Although denied even the hope
I long to become a king
To wear the crown
And lord it over all
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Submitted by GIDRAF on November 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXA BBXX XXXX XCXX XADX XDCE EDXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 827 |
Words | 170 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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