Chess Like That? (Mumbai 2008) Poem by Cynthia Buhain-baello

Just another round of the chess game
Rooks and bishops fall dead on the board

Apolitical horses have gone lame
As the dead count to a hundred soared

Black and white squares are now bloody red
Grieve for the pawns who've been blown up dead

Regroup, restart, this political game
Plot a quick 'rechauffe' of the same

And then fix a duel of nuclear kings-
For aren't your motives, just a chess thing?


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(Written December 10,2008 Tarlac City Philippines)