Checkmate

Life is but a game of chess

To play without remorse

Your future filled with promise

And the checkerboard your course

Your youth and beauty

Pawns and knights

Your bishops are your vigor

Your steely rooks, ambitious fight

And your most precious queen

Your ego and your stamina

And everything between

And when you have been stripped of those

The king becomes your fate

Your legacy and health because

Death accepts no stalemates