Bio
Meenakshi is a Literature educator and a quiet observer of the world around her. She writes to think and enjoys playing with words to paint pictures of life as she sees it. In her free time she reads and talks to her children about their dreams.
Meenakshi Palaniappan
Paperwork
I am buried in paperwork.
I would rather bury myself in earth,
sink into soft soil,
lose myself in a fertile bed that nurtures,
quite unlike this blood-sucking stack of papers,
and explore the subterranean mazes
through which naked mole rats roam,
where interlocked networks of roots talk,
sharing gossip of the towering Seraya
whose roots dig deep to support its airy dreams.
The grass roots engage in shallow chatter,
a bit like my papers, stuck in circular arguments
that don't scratch the surface of things that matter,
like us, building a nest with babies
rooting for hugs, games, stories, time,
that my paperwork erodes away.