L'aura del Campo

Between cardboard covers

Between cardboard covers

It sits there staring,
beckoning me to open it,
get lost in ink and images
as if
as if I had spare time to dream.

Once I did,
before the storm,
before the lightning struck.

Would it help with searing pain?

It seeks
a sucking in,
a letting go

of someone else's loss,
their tears
their tears to cleanse my thoughts.

Someone else's plaintive pleas
now washed by rain,

their loss
their loss —

my gain.

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.64] (1.mai.2021)

20 lines of free verse

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'LOST IN A BOOK' taboo words: story, book, page, world, character.