Library

Books I’ve read

have brought me many places;

to far off lands,

or just next-door,

another room in the same house.

So many people I have met.

Some I like, some I hate,

some I knew too well,

many I would love to know better.

I've undertaken well-plotted adventures,

felt the throb of a poet’s heart,

solved deep mysteries,

spent time thinking through another's life,

seeing their end and accepting it.

Well placed words, making me laugh, cry, worry, 

fear, champion or scorn.

The best and worst of life laid out

with ebony on ivory.

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