Indian chess

Indian chess, why mandatory:
the point is to get to the middle
the point is
a draw

witness
all white rules
of
consequence

player's hand gets gently bitten
by the
unsatisfied
raging
queen

the pawn's consecration:
no castling
no chances

no choices expanding
the cloud-in-the-wall
line
the eye-in-the-cloud-in-the-wall
submission

the pieces are willful
while the player's hand
sets this
machine's gears
at
initial positions

after that
the game is settled
by pieces
only
consequently