The Death Of The Library Poem by Phil Soar

I sat outside the Library
watched as books were loaded in a van
Literary classics
Children's nursery rhymes
Horror Stories
Biographies
It took 3 days to empty the shelves
Close the doors
Forever
Lost into a world of mobile devices
The written word
Not so much written
as typed
and saved in the PC memory
Captured on a chip
and not the one on the Librarian's shoulder
She left crying
I watched her walk away
after locking the doors
Goodbye to silence
Pages of knowledge
Good tales
Classics
Gone
Now having to buy them 'online'
Tearing up the membership card
I rise and leave
Forever