Ode to a Bookcase
It holds the things I learned to love first,
So full of treasure it seems it might burst,
But that thought worries me as I've never felt
Has that ever happened to someone else?!
Oh the horror to have found
Them all lying on the ground!
There is no sadder thing at which to look
Than an unloved and abandoned book.
I hope someday my whole house will be one,
And filled with all the books under the sun,
That is my true wish and only prayer,
And daydreaming I see myself there,
There in my heaven, at bliss, with my face
Buried in a book in my giant bookcase.