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Chess

In their fearsome corner, the players rule the slow pieces.

The board delays them until dawn

in its severe field in which two colors hate each other.

 

Inside radiate magical rigor forms:

Homeric tower, light horse,

armed queen, last king,

oblique bishop and aggressor pawns.

 

When the players are gone

when time has consumed them,

certainly the rite will not have ceased.

 

In India, perhaps, this war was ignited

whose amphitheater is today the whole earth.

like the other, this game is infinite.

 

Dim King, bishop bias,

fierce Queen, direct rook and cunning pawn

on the black and white of the road

seek and wage their armed battle.

 

They don't know that the pointed hand

of the player governs his fate,

they do not know that an Adamantine rigor

hold his will and his journey.

 

Also the player is a prisoner

(the sentence belongs to Omar) from another board

of black nights and white days.

 

God moves the player, and the player the piece.

What god behind god the plot begins

of dust and time and sleep and agonies?

 

by Jorge Luis Borges

 

 

~ Perpetuity ~ www.flickr.com/groups/perpetuity/, Envylicious (29, 75, 35) - Adulto

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