Reading

What is this life if, full of care

I have little time to spare

To lose myself in the pages of a book

To be so engrossed that I forget to look

At everything else around me

To have the pleasure of inhabiting vicariously

The characters’ lives, of rooting for their success

Of finding one character over who I obsess

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It is an interesting and productive life that I lead-

That’s how life appears when books I can read

All the tribulations of the day melt away

When I read a book that warms its way

Into my heart- at that moment, nothing else I need

I am a saner, more relaxed version of myself when I read