Checkmate.
You shrugged me off,
As if I wasn't a piece of you.
An entire half of you.
But I was valuable to you.
You needed me as your pawn.
I was the collateral that ensured she would answer when you called.
You shuffled me around that game board, with the confidence of a winner,
And the heart of a cheater.
Like every cheater before you and every other to come after,
you lost.
You don't play any more.
I make the rules now.
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