Pawn Takes Queen

Pawn Takes Queen


In glass palace serene

lives the Porcelain Queen

reflecting on her
faded royalty

The splendor
of what was

packed away
in forgotten yesterdays

Cobweb clouds
descend from 
gray skies

on the Porcelain Queen

catatonic 
drunken 
figurine  

alone with her regrets

as the sun sets

on her shattered
empty empire