‘baba black sheep'
Manthan wanted to write. Not his home work or assignment or imposition. but he wanted to write. not a story or a song or poem. but he just wanted to write. just for the shear pleasure of writing. To see how his hand flows with the elegant pencil that is in his hand. To see how his hand writing has become. So he started very slowly otherwise very carefully.‘baba black sheep, have you any wool,
yes sir, yes sir, three bags full’.
He repeated these two lines again and again. His speed increased. Slowly the lines started to drift away from his regular previous lines. Still he kept on writing as fast as he could. Alphabets started running from north to south and flowed in all the direction. He was completely bend towards his book and his pencil was hitting his forehead. He scribbled and scribbled and stopped when he was unable to understand what he was writing.
He stood up and moved to the window. He was looking through the window by holding the grill. Children of his age were playing under the trees. It has been months since manthan has stepped outside. He looked as far as he could in to the trees and tried to concentrate on a particular tree. After making sure of his eye sight, he turned to see what he has wrote.
‘baba black sheep, have you any wool,
yes sir, yes sir, three bags full’.
It was a hot Saturday afternoon. His room was closed and fan was switched off. He was perspiring, but still refused to switch on his fan. The dead silence of the room was broken by the sudden sound of unlatching his door from outside which scared him very much. He was breathless for a second with his mouth open. His mother came in. he was holding his book. She walked towards him and snatched his book. She read the first page.
‘baba black sheep, have you any wool’
His legs were trembling. She closed the book and shouted at him ‘ where is the imposition’. Manthan looked at her terrified.
posted by Vinod @ 8:41 AM
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Well written da.... Carry on.. post more..
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