Self-Portrait as Cuttlefish

I am trying ♕ my best
to be a chessboard
but can't figure ♛ this
out—to blend into a binary 
as old as light ♔ that predates 
any colour dreamed up 
in the history ♚ of man.
This high contrast hugs
tighter than a strait 
-jacket and scatterbrains
my pigments ♗ It’s harder
to hide in plain sight 
than ever before ♝ I look 
more like a leopard 
print throw ♘ or the question 
mark of a lemur’s tail.                 
I could turn ♞ into a UFO                     
in seconds to hypnotise 
a crab ♖ but I’m yet
to crack this pattern. 
Take me back ♜ to a reef
and I'll be its ghost.
Show me ♙ a shipwreck 
and I'll shapeshift 
into a chest ♟ of glittering 
doubloons—fool's gold 
is worth less ♙ than you think.
But a chessboard is my dark side
of the moon ♟ If you please, 
♙ fly me to the mouth
of a crater ♟ and you'll never
see me again.