A jumble of words,
Words tumbling over each other,
Other tasks on hold,
Hold my attention these pranksters,
Pranksters out to make a fool of me,
Me, the ever ready listener,
Listener mesmerised by their crazy notions,
Notions tumbling forth in haste,
Haste makes me lose my reins,
Reins to control the flow,
Flow of words threatening to deplete ink and paper,
Paper, keep my honour,
Honour i must my muse,
Muse, we meet after a long time,
Time lost, we have to make good!
Pratima Apte: I am an English Hons. Graduate of Delhi University. I am a homemaker, recently turned grandmother! I used to write sporadically in the Pune edition's Women's page of the Indian Express. I love reading and writing, words are my world. My interests in reading are self-help books, spiritual and cookbooks and fiction. Books by Ayn Rand, Taylor Caldwell, Leon Uris, J Krishnamurthy, Dan Brown have been my favourites, as also layman's homeopathy, astrology and medical books.