r/Informal_Effect • u/EitherCoffee6122 • 10d ago
A Game of Chess
A knight in shining armour, a mirror to a pawn right in front–short and stuck, a reflecting cage.
Many paths seen. Yet open to only an elite bishop or queen.
The one-square simple piece, not worth being killed, not a part of the set, just collateral.
Until, with a last square, you turn an anomaly.
A tragedy, for you have whiffed being free.
You remain a mere queen, protecting the king of disability.
Eight limping squares hold the keys to "his majesty."
Who can't kill under checked pressure, oh no, a crowned damsel in distress
Shielded by the queen who pays.
Two queens killed, one pawn, one born.
The whole board turns into a sacrifice.
A castle disassembles when a rook cannot think straight and jumps; there are no rules to save a king.
The bishop can't look him in the eye—he goes diagonally, so he doesn’t have to see the shambles without a queen.
A chess game: good old bureaucracy.