Books are my addiction
And literature my high
I love to sit and read the words
That make me touch the sky
I do not get the munchies
I do not sit and weep
Unless I read the biography
Of the actress Meryl Streep
Books are my addiction
I’m helpless to resist
My collection ever growing
And unable to desist
I can hide behind the pages
That are yellowing and old
I ignore the world around me
And forget what I’ve been told
I have no interest in eating
I’ve lost my appetite
Just one more page I turn
And I swoon in fast delight
Because books are my addiction
I’m forgetting how to live
I’m getting lost in Wonderland
I hope you can forgive
It’s funny how these pages
Can seem to suck you in
The pages turn, the words “The End”
Just means another to begin
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem