She Travels Through Books
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The girl in the library
Escaping her home life
Her whole life
A kitchen with too many cooks
Sits under the green light
Away from the limelight
She never gets homesick
She travels through books
On cold winter evenings
Alone but contented
She sits in the corner
Avoiding long looks
She opens the pages
And journeys through ages
Her sad eyes alight as
She travels through books
No kind hands to greet her
Or lover to meet her
A life of abuse and
Of violence and crooks
She finds inner beauty
In Christian duty
She's never been far though
She travels through books
A burden of sins on her
Young tender shoulders
A cold lonely planet
Her life really sucks
She's poor but not futile
She's upwardly mobile
Her life is in chains so
She travels through books
gknapton copyright
I like this. What greater way to escape reality with all of its harsh uncertainties than through a book. Not even the internet can match the journey a story can take you on. Sure nowadays you can read online but it feels impersonal to me. Nothing compares to entering the chambers of imagination, curled up in my own personal reading space with a paperback in my hands.
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