The book you want to read

I’ve read that if there is a book you really want to read

But that book does not exist, then you need

To write it yourself, because your desire to read this book

Reflects the story hidden within you, that’s where you need to look

No one else wants to tell the story as much as you do

So you must claim the story and bring it into existence too

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I have not found books centered around characters like me

Those with lives that are straightforward and ordinary

Those who follow rules- perhaps it is hard to spin a narrative

Around a person who an average, middle-class life lives

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Someday I would like to write about someone like me

Who experiences challenges fictitious but extraordinary

Maybe that’s the book I am carrying inside

When that story I am no longer able to hide

I hope to write it down, for someone to see

Perhaps that book would be my legacy..