Inside the Pages - A Poem

Inside the Pages

By: Jasmine Perez

     I have scanned nearly every possible

shelf in each bookstore and library

and have never experienced a book

that has warned me about the tragic dark stages

of life;

a book that also reminds

me of all the light in myself.

  But I don’t blame the authors

for the misleading lies about life.

I blame life for being so

unpredictable

that one cannot shove the meanings

of life

into words stuffed into a book

and placed onto dusty bookshelves.

  A book written about life

and it’s aspects would never perish;

the pages would never dissolve into the floorboards

of an empty forgotten attic,

waiting to be remembered.

 Life, as a really good book

never fades.