Chess & Jacks

Chess

I have friends that like to play chess

but they are gone

so I tucked the board away

I don’t like chess

I don’t like waiting for a game to end

I don’t like wits at battle

I don’t like how silent it is

but it has been rather quiet

without the light tap of their wooden warriors

Jacks

I like meeting Jacks

the name is quick and hard

and it's my little brother's name

I think it’s good

to miss the people you should

and I do miss Jack

especially when I meet a Jack

the one I met tonight

I met in a class I am taking

he wrote down everyone’s name

in a little blue book

I thought to myself

that’s something Jack would do