I want to
wring the knowledge
from the pages
of the world
and absorb it
within my soul
so I may better understand
a sliver
of all
I do not know
Tag: reading
Words
I do not remember
every word I've read,
but I know how I felt
about the ones that have mattered;
I still feel the flames
they stoked within,
how they took my heart in their hands
squeezing until they brought tears,
how they made me invincible
and brought knowledge of the world;
without these words
I would be lesser