The Reader
The reader
Is a leader
In the making;
Waiting
To do something
Become something
Through chance
Or happenstance
To go the distance
Scale summits
Reach zeniths
That lie within the self
What a book and oneself
Can reveal
Both fiction and real
Endless
Timeless
Truths and untruths
The fruits
When words
Are the swords
In the absence of light
As we fight
Our own ignorance
We earn
What we learn
We can lead
When we read
In perpetual bliss,
In solitary peace.
