Joy

Joy

Joy is holding it in my hands.

Feeling the pages

as they flip through my fingers.

Wondering how these words seem so perfect.

Joy is knowing these are my words.

Reading them over 

and over until I have them memorized.

Loving the beauty that is my book.

Joy is touching the soft pages.

Looking at the characters names 

and knowing they are my very own.

Wondering how these words seem so perfect.

Joy is wrapping my fingers around the binding.

Caressing the cover page

with an ineffable expression.

Loving the beauty that is my book.

Joy is getting that first copy.

Answering all of my friends and family

that want one too.

Wondering how these words seem so perfect.

Joy is the work I put into these words finally being presented in a final product.

Smiling every time I look at it 

because it is now mine.

Loving the beauty that is my book.

Author's Note

My book, The Fight, is published!! It has been a three year long journey but it is finally here! It is available on lulu.com and will be available at other places in a few weeks. Thank you guys for your help in making me a better writer.

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Your emotions just purr and sing and delight from start to finish.. I've nodded, smiled, imagining how it must be to see and feel your paper-child. Your imagination panted its seed, your time and thought nurtured it until the day came..

A wonderful poem, full of sincerity and justified delight, Brittany.

[Brittany Bostic]

Thank you for your kind words! So glad you enjoyed!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and a big congratulations Brittany...i like how you poetically showed that inner shine that comes from publishing a book....it is quite the feeling isn't it?

i don't know what can really beat it...something we conceived in our mind...something artistic, finds its way into this world almost a living breathing entity...and many ways it is...

[Brittany Bostic]

Thank you very much! It is quite extraordinary.