Book, my Best Lover…

Book, my Best Lover…

Book, my best lover,

Veiled feelings uncover,

New worlds can uncurl

Real truths to unfurl;

Some wonder, some mystery,

A re-charge of old history?

 

Oh book! please reveal

Can you challenge and heal?

Fiction braids fact

Words dance and react,

New feelings, divinings,

Connections, alignings.    

 

Alphabet, my best lover,

Ourselves we discover;

Stone reed vellum paper,

We read and feel safer,

For In each page we turn

We can learn and unlearn.

 

Book, my best lover.

 

Libby Hathorn    at Elysium, September ‘23/