Checkmate

I live my life like a game of chess where all of the things I love are sacrificed like pawns. I move and shuffle pieces around my board and watch as they're taken from me. "Pawn to E5." Taken. "Pawn to D6" Taken. "Queen takes D6" A small retribution, but my game, my life still in ashes. "Check." "Check." "Check." I run frantically around the board, ignoring my problems and just trying to escape all of the sacrifices and trying to just hold on "Check." "Check." "Check." I am hopeless, a single soldier against an army, so I run, run, run. But someday, my problems will be faster than me. "Check." "Check." "Checkmate."