Books

Books

By May Kwek

There are books on my table

And books on the shelves

There books in the cardboard

And everywhere else

My family read all the time

Especially me

I have a friendship with books

They are my companions you see

They are time machines

That travel through the ages

A ship through which I can travel

And learn without wages

They are an open door

To a brand new world

So though the journeys can be sore

I would forsake it for the world

The words become pictures

And dance in my brain

The stories read quickly

Like a torrential rain

And I can fly away

To the mountains high

And like a bird

 I can touch the sky 

Books bring me to the oceans

They bring to space

And then they return to earth

To where a poor man once laid

They teach me to feel

What others might have felt

For books have a certain magic

To bring me there as well

And so I say 

Books are my friends

For when I am lonely

These adventures they send

Copyright © 2011 by May Kwek