Chess

It is your move,

Your move to make,

Suspended hope keeps me awake

At dawn.

You're asking me:

"What Fool comes 'round

To step up on this battleground,

A pawn?"

A pawn at chess,

A Queen at heart,

I haven't quite mastered the art

Of war.

But this is all I dare to win:

One game, one love

For smiles I lost

Before.

We're tangled in a game of chess,

With every foul move, I undress,

For every single pawn I lose,

For Castles, Knights and crooked Fools,

I'm slipping deeper into your

Sweet abuse...

The hourglass

Is keeping time

In grains of sand and pantomime

Of space.

Your patience kills

My old mistake,

I'm softer than a dancing snake

On lace.

Still hesitating,

Yet I feel

Enough to show you how to seal

My fate.

The last defending pawn goes down

The King is stumbling on his crown.

Check mate.

We're tangled in a game of chess,

With every foul move I undress,

For every single pawn I lose,

For Castles, Knights and crooked Fools,

I'm slipping deeper into your

Sweet abuse...