Just Read
Yesterday I was 20,000 leagues under the sea
Last Christmas was just the March family and me
Watched in wonder as they put up Old Glory
I’m always a part of the grand story
I have loved Big Brother
Braved the Hunger Games with another
I know what your thinking
”This ones brains must be breaking”
No one can do all these doings
No one can be all these beings
I’ll tell you all these things are very possible
This gift is quite open to those who are able
I’ve been so many places and times
There’s been death, failure, and crimes
Life, success and love
What is this wondrous thing I’ve made use of?
It starts with an R and ends with an –ead
This is a skill you need!
Everyday you do use some of its power
From the ads on TV to the menu at happy hour
This interest I have is fabulous,
Absurd, philosophical, impressive and scandalous
Once you start I’m sure you’ll be hooked
Open a book; I just took one little look
Now I can’t be stopped
My obsession cannot be dropped
Forever and always I’ll be reading
My minds hunger, eternally needs feeding
I would just like to express
The ways words make our daily toil less
In today’s world you cannot survive
Play a game, work on homework or even drive
Be able to read our English language
Witten to help with our life’s great voyage
But reading is not just for letters
Textbooks or newspaper headers
It’s about learning what its like to be another
Not people like your sister or mother
But people you will never meet
Such as a Roman Solider or famous athlete
For when you walk in their shoes
You’ll figure out the reason for their views
You can understand the why,
Where, what and who’s the good guy
Yes, from Narnia I just returned
Under Steinbeck I was governed
David Livingstone I presume
Living as Alice I must resume
My fairy tales by Hans are endless
I’ve lived the story behind the Gettysburg address
Moses and I parted the Red Seas
With William Taft I planted those cherry trees
I’m not just one simple person
In a matter of second my situation could worsen
Or be the winner of some grand race
I am not limited to a certain place
California, London or Spain
All without the cost of a plane
As long as the realms of my imagination show no bounds
So will the adventures on foreign grounds
Are we meant to stay in one place?
Never got back in time or travel through space?
I believe the answer is no
I don’t have the means to see a Van Gogh
My head wants to learn and my heart wants to soar
They want more, more, more
So, that’s what I’ll do
I’ll continue to travel from Kansas to Timbuktu
Keeping on living as others did
Even if I am forbid
With a book in my hand
I’ll have no other demand
Happy as a blooming rose
Of to lands that nobody knows
Just dreamed with Ebenezer Scrooge firsthand
The Spanish and I discovered the Rio Grande
Cried where the Red Fern Grows
Laughed at the Emperor in his new clothes
I’ve been a place you can’t imagine
Historic, fiction and action