A Game Without Rules

 Srikrishna and Shakespeare 
 have established that
 The world is a stage and we are players
 To me 
 It's a play 
 without a script 
 A game
 without rules.
 How I can say my lines
 without knowing the others'
 Who can play the game
 without rules.
 
 So
 I'm playing 
 offense or defence
 per the moves 
 of the others
 
 And I know 
 That's no flaw 
 in MY character!

Nidadavolu Malathi
Published in Andhra Prabha Weekly, 9/12/1997.