BOOKS

After the hundreds of books and have read
and the many I have fallen in love with
I have come to regard books as a necessity
and not just some luxury
The wondrous tales the books tell
entwining their graceful magic around me
enveloping me
providing bliss from the outside world
and solitude and silence
even in the midst of the noisiest crowd
Feeding my imagination with fantasies
my intellect with facts
Reading is as essential to me
as prayers are to a holy Christian
Books are my religion
the beings I would bet my soul on
If to me, life is nothing
but endless sufferings and torments
Books
would be the saving grace
of my otherwise wretched life.