My longest standing relationship started in a library.
I was just glancing when I first noticed their ivory.
They were enchanting.
I didn’t yet know all that they promised.
The first one I opened cause an awakening.
I was upside down and inside out.
It was a gun showdown inside my brain. Nothing was the same.
Everyday I met new people, saw new places
I could visit everywhere and anywhere without relocation.
It was regal. Everyday was a vacation.
All the fun I was having felt illicit
Like there was an oppressor hovering overhead,
Waiting to say never again.
But I’ll always remember the friends I made,
Hidden between the ink and the page.