A Gifted World

Posted by Brad Osborne on March 8, 2021 · 21 Comments 

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I found the world in an ocean of ink

Pressed between and bound by leather

The pens of writers that came before

Each a rich and unique tributary

That fed a sea of extraordinary

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All the world had been lain at my feet

And I, all the time to truly explore

The lives that did not look like mine

Where the world seemed immense

And knowing was never past tense

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History, fiction and fairytale

Offered in the succulence of prose

All that a man could ever hope become

Was there in the pages of every book

And all I had to do was look

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Jet setting around the globe

To places with such funny names

And people so different than me

Nary a mile had I ever travelled

Yet the hidden of life, there unraveled

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For in every world, I found on page

Mysterious, exotic, and strange

Held a lesson in the recognized

Though so different from one another

Every character a sister or brother

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The pens of writers that came before

The lives that did not look like mine

All that a man could ever hope become

Were held within each printed line

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