Life Is Not A Chessboard

By Jordan Mubila

If life is a Chessboard
Some are destined to be sacrificed.

If life is a Chessboard
Some will be neglected,
Unmoved towards heaven (or hell) rather Entangled with another,
fixed by the same unknown fate.

If Life is a chessboard, which it isn’t, but
it could be,

Then

however long and voiceless and convolutedly masked in mannerisms it may be
It consists of a single moment –
Or single moment(s)
within which one seizes or is seized.