NaPoWriMo Day 21: Living library

Hi, I’m doing NaPoWriMo on napowrimo.net. The challenge is to write a poem a day in April. 

For Day 21, I didn’t follow the prompt. Sorry!

Living library

We wonder when enough is,

If we can change anything –

Our thoughts, our secrets,

Ourselves.

We see others filed on shelves,

Dog-eared and dust-moted.

Shadow beings emptied from the

Inside out.

Each library card is stamped

With a birth, significant borrowers,

Random dates, late fees, the

End game.

Our books lined up look the same,

Waiting silently for the right reader

To find us, feel the lines of our story,

And know.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, April 21, 2020