L'aura del Campo

Life through other's eyes [61]

Life through other's eyes

His life revolved around books,
walls of insulation from the world,
telescopes to peer at it from afar.

A window let in light to read,
in winter cardinals came to the feeder,
in summer it opened to let in a breeze.

Boyhood tales of knights and dragons
morphed into mysteries solved by youth his age,
but so unlike him they seemed quite alive.

Then came comic books, magazines and mangas,
the serious tômes of Albert Camus,
the heavier ones of Dostroyevsky.

He had kept them all, shelves groaning,
his bed hidden behind a closet door,
falling asleep each night with favorite poems.

He would spend a century of reading, if he could,
each day struggling with eternal truth and lies,
never leaving, seeing life through other's eyes.

© Kåre Enga (29.avril.2017) [174.61]

Written while listening to Sayantani Dasgupta read an essay at Shakespeare & Co.

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