Bibliophile

24.4.2018

Bibliophile

Colourful book covers,

Lifesaving quotes 

The cupboard is a magic dose.

The books peep out emotional journeys,

The successes and the failures,

The complex characters and soulful poetry.

I breathe,

the smell of ink imprinted on the pages of the new;

The dust settled in between the pages of a few.

Cleaning the cupboard is like unfolding the pages of life,

The images of reading a book flash in my mind.

While travelling or embracing the silence of the nights 

I have read many in my life.

Sitting in the high school library,

Gazing at the books as a child,

Touching the pages of flap books

The bright colours and soft fingers 

Run in my mind.

I read and borrow them 

to the old and the young,

The list never ends of buying a few;

Books are like moving images 

And the eyes are a camera for the few.