The Day I Read My First Book..

I close the book

I close my eyes

Keep my eyes shut

Though I am crying inside

I read the first page

Not knowing what I'd find

A whole new world

Or more of my kind

The book looks so simple

On the outside

One could not suspect

The secrets that hide inside

Mere ink on a few sheets of paper

and yet there is so much to uncover

from the lines and shapes

between cover and cover

The author created him

but his death destroys me

It may not be real

but for me, is just as well could be

The characters are made up

but the message is not

It will stay with me forever

in a year or passing thought

I flipped the last page

Not wanting it to end

After all this ends

How am I to mend?

An entire world of stories

yearning to be told

the lives of so many

who never got to grow old

The author is the Beyoncé of literature

but I don't know

if I will ever be able to forgive him

for introducing me to a world I can never be a part of

Deep down,

I am the boy in my book

Continuing the belief in my fandom

Waiting for a miracle to happen

I read to escape from reality

between the pages of a book

I can be whatever I want to be

I can go anywhere I want to go

May it be Hogwarts or Narnia

I can find my heaven in my nook

thinking that fiction would end

and reality would upturn

Yesterday bought the beginning

Tomorrow may bring the end

But I know,

Somewhere in the middle, I and my book became the best of friends

Me and my book sit in solace

I want to know the future

but not loose the present

Why does the book end? Leaving me empty again

People call me a bookworm

but I want to remind them

I am not a bookworm

but a book dragon

They say you only live once

but that is a lie

by reading a book

YOU LIVE ANOTHER LIFE