3 step

Three steps forward, no way back
Make ready for the next attack
A rule here to keep it in line.
Yet not so easily, define
Watch them play this childhood game,
You'd think I'd be bored, or find it lame.

"Hey you can't do that!"
"Hey! in this game there's no bat!"
A warning, a lesson, 3 steps more
I haven't racked up the highest score.
Group game time, a favorite past time
So lay down the rules, so sublime.

"Quiet now! No more noise!"
Who will win? The girls or boys?
It all depends on who can throw,
Their faces all searching above, below.
Run to one corner, then the next!
You don't want to be annexed.

Yelling to get someone out,
Faces filled with serious doubt.
3 step, an important game.
To me and them it's not so lame.