A Pawn All Along

A Poem by Silver_water_dragon

2011

All you knew is wrong

It was all planned out

They were out to get you all along

No one was supposed to know what the "hush hush" was about.

These walls around you whispered silent warnings

If only you had seen the signs sooner

These stone walls that you once called home

No more! No more! It was planned from the start.

Betrayal was the foul scent in the air

They were fast on your trail

You were meant to be another pawn in their clever plan

Nothing more than a piece to be captured and disposed of.

The secrets were words that echo in your ears still

Mentally can't figure out how this could happen

Words that turn your blood icy

A plan that was meant to make you heart stop.

All you knew was a lie

Betrayal is as sharp as any weapon

Stay on the run until you find a safer place

You were a target all along.

Greed was the foul scent in the air

Lies placed so carefully... a planned accident

They meant you to fall with a sword through your heart

Gold and power outweigh the value of life on their crooked scale.

These walls around you whispered warnings

If only you had found out sooner

These stone walls that you once called home

No more- no more- it was planned from the start.

© 2014 Silver_water_dragon

Author's Note

Inspired from my novel Black Sun Rising

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Jamie R. Robillard Sr.

A good write. I enjoyed the poem.

Some minor mistakes like in the second stanza should it not be 'These walls'. The scansion gets a bit loose in the middle and becomes difficult to read. Not that the content was bad though. The last stanza is a bit of an anomaly. I like the conception though the wording of this stanza does not only break scansion I do not feel it has the force the rest of your poem does. It reads like a narrative?

I really do enjoy the poem and I hope you take my critique in the light it was meant. To help and not hinder.