PC Game of Death

by Silver_lotus_deity

Posted to Poetry on 2003-02-11 10:18:00

nations clash
empires fall
On Yama’s chess board do they toil
Swords flash, missiles blaze
Knight’s Gambit
Arms race, space race, Cold War
King-side Castle
Nuclear weapons, bio warfare, agent orange
Checkmate!
Yama wins, we lose.
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Note: Yama is the King of Death in some Buddhist cosmologies.