“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars”

I’m too sane for this crazy world.  You can’t be a man who’s word means something in a world filled with liars & manipulators.  I know.  I was one of those once.  I did the work to change.  I made my name synonymous with integrity and honor.  I fought every day for my family, for others, for the underdog.  Then one day everything I worked for was demolished by the person who I thought cared the most.  Someone who placed the blame for their choices, choices they made years before I ever met them, on my shoulders.  And I looked around and no one was there to defend me in my time of need.  None of the people I had championed, who’d seen my character time & time again, questioned the word of a liar.  How long can a man face insurmountable odds?  How many unwinnable wars is he expected to fight?  I think this is my last.  My fight and my faith is gone.

“I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn’t a game for knights.”