Chess Pieces
Chess pieces
By Michelle Morris
14/08/2021
We are like chess pieces,
Being moved around the board;
Forever in play for political payoffs
For control of the world.
Boundaries invisible, yet
Stark and obvious in place;
Keeping us apart by ambitions;
Monetisation of the arms race.
Perhaps it is time that
We moved off this game;
No longer chess pieces, but
Luminary atoms untamed.
Free to decide our own unique
Paths and fates -
Be our enlightened, powerful selves
In this our universal space.
© Michelle Morris, 2021
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