nerd

i would prefer to sit

home alone

and read

the fountainhead

the catcher in rye

the metamorphosis

the stranger

i get drunk off plays on words

i get high off clever plots

what keeps me up at

night isn't money

or relationships

it's the fact that

there are so many

lovely books

that have yet to be

in my hands

it's overwhelming

i do not dream

of stacks of currency

or a lover by my side

i dream of paper

covered in ink

and the satisfying

feeling of turning pages

Reviews

[Lydia Shutter]

You have written an anthem for all poets, Heather. While books, words, and pages can add joy to our lives, we have to get out there and really live too. "i get drunk off plays on words" great line! I liked the images you evoked. Lydi**

[fwvalidus]

Happy and sad at the same time. I wish the character saw the value in everything that life has to hold. But I envy the sheer joy found within books. Good poem though!

[Heather Hassell]

I appreciate it! I just really love books more than life itself, but only sometimes haha.

[fwvalidus]

Those who read not only live their own lives, but all the lives of the characters they have read about, that is why reading is so magical!

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” --> George RR Martin