Checkmate

My son called with a question
About chess
I made neither suggestion
Nor a guess

I never got good
Nor quite understood
This game
Nor one other:

"Life"

By name
Rife
With possibilities
And dread

For questions such as these
I said
Call your brother
Instead

The one who might have known
Is dead
And better left alone

+Steven Curtis Lance



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