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Ode to Books -Friendly Books Fill My House

My world has always contained
Lots of books in my house
10,000 books reside with me
Collected during my 65 years

Books are my friends
From my earliest days
Books will be my friends
Until the day I die

Books have always been there
Books are my friend
Whispering words of wisdom
Comforting me during the dark days

Offering rays of hope
In the darkest night
Illuminating human nature
Teaching life’s many lessons

Books bleeding into my memories
Old books, Classic books, strange weird books
Foreign language books all around
Korean, Spanish, Latin, Thai, Hindi

Stories of the past made present future
Worlds yet to come
Nightmarish visions of the world to come
Books yet to be written

Books I want to write
Characters dancing in my head
Screaming let me come alive
Before they fade into the past

Unwritten stories becoming personal ghosts
Before they fade away into my past
Stories of the past made present future
Stories of what was and what never was

10,000 Books read (75%)
Thousands lost due to downsizing
Thousands more to downsize soon
Thousands of books read and forgotten

Of the thousands of books
Littering my house
Can they all be reduced
To one single kindle?

Too many books left to read
Too many books left to downsize
And when I consign my books
Into oblivion where do they go?

What happens to the books
When they are discarded
Do they wish to die
When no one reads them anymore?

Does the soul of the book
Live on in book heaven?
When I lose a book
I mourn its lost for days

Thinking back
To all the books I ever read
Every one a friend in need
Now they will soon fade away

As my end days approach
And I say goodbye to my books
Knowing I will never read them
let them go in peace before I die