Bookmark

This is an initial first draft and a work I am quite sure I shall return to work on further...

Bookmark

 

 

There’s a little book upon your shelf

Simply called "Your Life"

I placed there so you could look

When you needed a break from strife

 

 

I hope that you will take it down

When you find the need

Find a cozy chair and dim the lights

Take a deep breath and slow the worlds speed

 

 

It has happiness and childhood dreams

Troubles more than one could bear

Lofty heights on fancy flights

Good acts Good deeds Bad hair

 

 

It tells tales of loves you lost

And disappointments that you bore

Stories of the dragons you slayed

Your battles and your wars

 

 

It has the stories of peaceful dreams

Details of what you want

Lists of things you didn’t need

But find they are things you got

 

 

It tells how you have laughed with joy

Times when you’ve been annoyed

Callous hands meddled in your life

And left you quite destroyed

 

 

I wanted you to have it close

When you have the need

To lift your spirits or soothe a bruise

I encourage you to read

 

 

But the reason that I put it there

The thing I ask you to read

A bookmarked page to a chapter

Simply titled me

 

 

Don’t tear the page or lose this book

In happiness I find

The times when I felt the best

When we were side by side

 

 

Though I cannot stand with you today

Know I always care

In your book I once lived

I left my bookmark there

 

 

Reviews

[Liderien]

This is stupendous. The concept is so simple yet so deep.
I love this entire idea so crafty and clean, so deep.

[Eve]

Somewhere in the book of everyone's life you have met there is a 'me' chapter, i love that concept! Well done!

[justjenn_2u]

An innocent piece with a stream of creativity. Nice rhyme scheme. Good job and write on.

[Leslie Philibert]

This is a good poem with a clever, extended metaphor, mostly optimistic although I noticed the sadness of the last two lines of the sixth verse, and the the message of the last verses, so lots of light and shade, good writing.

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. beautiful poetry ... thoughtful and sensitive ... loved the title ... loved how you justified it ... you left a bookmark on my mind's book ... :) ...

[bob, small b. aka invs]

lovely image. it's somewhat comforting to think of myself as a character in the books of some people's lives. i hope i'm a sympathetic character whose bookmark they return to now and then.

[Distant horizons]

Excellent idea to remember what once was.

[Daydreamer54]

I loved the rhyming and thought it was something new and sweet! Thi is definitly going into my favorites! Wonderful write! ^^