Knight Takes Queen

If you think that it’s fated

Just go ‘head and state it

Just say that you stayed

All too long

In awaiting

For me to be

Some kind of man

You’d expect

To be there all the time

Not the mind who’d object

To the social injustice,

The coup d’etat bloodless

The white power plays

Charlemagne

To the Dulles

Insurgencies crushed

By the hush of corruption

The lush virgin lands

Raped by corporate seduction

The merciless,

Unyielding

Thrust of production

Duplicitous,

Profligate

Lust of consumption

The numb to the slum

Mum’s the word battle won

And some

Before even

The Russian bear stirred

Others still

Before even

The King Leo purred

When the purge isn’t fiction

I urge the revision

Enlist in the war

Upon carbon emission

And see with the heat-seeker

Serpentine vision

But spit it unwritten,

Unscripted

If needed

Concede not an inch

Of this ethical Eden

And in the endgame

Existential

Checkmate

Is the movement I make

To still you

Captivate