Zugzwang

You were the best of us, my Queen.

Devout and deadly as a Bishop, you cut through opposition like butter.

Loyal and with a Rook's honor, you defended me in my worst times.

Yet one day I took to greed and lost you with little to gain.

And only when the board was nearly clear and I was all alone,

did I realize that a King without his Queen has no victory in his future,

and is even less useful than a Pawn.