anything and everything in between

falling asleep with a book on your chest

i dont read very often anymore
i often find i dont have the time
but when i do, it consumes me

ill stay awake for hours on end
reading page after page after page
just taking it all in

i lose myself in stories of other people
in make believe scenarios
because everything seems lighter

while i read, i like to pretend
pretend that life really is like this
like none of it is made up

and often times, before i can finish
i fall asleep with the book on my chest
open on the last page i read

a small, insignificant sign
that i am real in a way those words
will never, ever be