Chess Piece

by Lovepoems

May 2, 2019

Last class in seventh grade.

The chess piece was left behind.

While the other chess pieces roamed out

to the battlefield and

never heard from them again.

However, one chess piece survived.

But had to do somthing

To repel course to Hope!

With dignity and love

and destroy death.

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LovepoemsJan 11, 2022

The title was meant to be "The Last Chess Piece". In seventh grade of middleschool, the girl was the last to move out of the classroom. While every studentwas going home. That turned into a battlefield that she was the last chess piece.Everyone was fighting against their foes with swords and shields. She was the lastone to fight a big one. The ending was unclear, at least everyone had a chanceto move forward and fought againste their foes.      With dignity that was the head up high with courage to continue and do not lookback and disappeared. The last chess piece was a girl last to leave from the classand last to move and defeat a foe. She might have a potential to stay behind and askquestions in real time, but no, she was slow to get out of the classroom and gohome. Why she even doing that when everyone was already walking home andgetting picked up by their parents?     The answer was that she was not the commodity that she followed, she followed no one, but her own thoughts and instinct behaviors. She survivied onher own. No one told her what to do, not even the foe.