About Her

3: Books and Self

In the days when I feel naked

Empty, confused, and dead

I reach for a book to read

And be lost in its pages instead

Another world has been created

By words this book has bled

I will lie on its earth with dread

That soon, this will end

By the story, I am repainted

With hope I have long awaited

I will read 'til I feel naked

Empty, confused, and dead