Each piece assigned with it’s own rules

Similar and different, each of them tools

Similar to people, strangers and friends alike

It is strangers we respect and friends we fight

In life there are words that come natural 

Like the sounds of the forest pitter pattering

Or the water raining from the sky, dripping

No sign of man-made words, nothing manual

There are words created for convenience 

As unnatural yet powerful as captured light

Words that that hold controlled lenience

And words that can soften, any heart or mind

Words hold power

Whether it is delivered through books or speech

They can do a lot more

Than any one human can hope to beseech

Because pawns may be sacrificed 

And bishops run astray 

The knights and queen might fight and die

But it is the king whose significance is portrayed.