The One I Was Meant To Read
A gazillion of them
All over the world
A gazillion nanoseconds
Then my life disappears in a whirl
What makes me think
I can read them all?
Every page every preface
Every line however small
Just because I love books
I don’t need to read everyone
Just because I love books
I don’t need to read a ton
Even if others say
This or that is a must
An epic a tome
A classic to fuss
If it doesn’t speak to me
It probably wasn’t mine
So I should put it back down
Find the one made for my time
The books I don’t need
I no longer should feel oblige
That I have to read it through
Before I sleep at night
The books I do need
Are those that breathe
New oxygen into my blood
That touches me deep
Let this from hereon
Be the reason I pick
My next book my next discovery
The one I was meant to read!
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I loved the verse in particular which starts:
“Just because I love books”…