Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Books are Secret Spaces - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Books are Secret Places

 

Books are secret places where words go to hide

When the world goes wrong, and children are hurt

By grownups who never learned how to read or love

Or even tell funny stories around the campfire

 

Books are secret places where stories go to hide

When there’s shooting and looting, and children are hurt

By grownups who never think of anything beyond

What their clever leaders tell them to do

 

Books are secret places where poems go to hide

When museums are looted, and children are hurt

By grownups who can see only ideologies

And never the good, the true, the beautiful

 

Books are sacred vessels: read them, love them -

They hold our civilization in trust

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