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Books
Books are bound pages with words
Words that can make us happy
Ones that can make us cry
But we never understand why
They can lead our heads, hopes, and fantasies
To places far and wide
Off into the distance to the distant past
But they leave our hearts and souls behind
To sit on a cliff of disrespect, but not introspect
Waiting for the call from a far-off place
That may never come
What to do now?
Lie in hopelessness?
There is but one grand book
We must read with complete openness and clarity
With a heart that is open to accept the consequences
Because in the beginning, it was the word
Words that still echo from the source of all that we know
And that we don’t know
We will never know
We must read between the lines of forgiveness
Spaces between words that if we reach out and grab them
They will never let go
From the heart of the pages of my book
I see a figure in the act of reading
Then I hear the voice of my mother calling to me
Reading cryptic of my childhood
Her face is laced with an enegmatic smile
What does that mean mother dearest?
From a chair facing the bed
Books about horses and dogs conjur up memories in my head
It was my mother again
Then I see myself building bookshelves filled with
Books about a boy receding into the perilous woods
Out yonder
Disppearing in the shadows of the light beyond the trees
Blessings of love, soulful touch, and deep intimacy to whomever took the time to read the words from a page of my life
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Naomi
What a poignant picture I have in my mind of Ellen reading to her dear son. It also reminded me of my mother reading to me! Dick and Jane , see Spot run!! Bible stories, Bible songs, Mother Goose and a library of Little Golden books! That far off place for me is walking to Ward Pond with a blanket to sit on and an armful of books to read! The Bible was the main book in our house and to this day I read out of a Bible that my parents gave me long ago. Wishing everyone a blessed day 🙏