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Dear God of chess games turned long-range missiles, fateful tanks and heavy metals | |
Let our prayers be likewise geared for long-range impact and great precision to protect the innocent from invasion and division | |
For suddenly the game has changed… Another match just like we played last season and the last… in fierce competition, yes, but a theoretical game of chess none the less… | |
Until today when these wooden figures turned flesh and bone and tender When suddenly the tactics are tactile made of real fire, no fiction in shrapnel | |
For these chess pieces bleed… the rooks buckle under pressure and bishops bend break shatter pawns blasted asunder by another monster and another | |
And the bloodied board has begun to drip onto the carpet that keeps getting pulled out from beneath our feet and we can’t seem to stop it… | |
The fabric of an entire continent stained sprayed afraid as we pray our way through this somber day. | |
We are wildly untethered weathered by winter and pandemic we are deep in it dismay, dismal and may we finish the game somehow saved somehow civil | |
May Justice be the victor and may the chess master master his own inward glance and retreat from disaster | |
Unseat the monsters who make chess pieces bleed onto the carpet the kings and queens are just mothers and fathers protect the pawns God of chess games please stop this… |
“A Prayer for Ukraine” was first published by Chaya Kaplan Lester on her Facebook page.
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