Books! My Dear Books! Poem by Bharati Nayak

(Books are the plane, and the train and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home'-----by Author Anna Quindlen)
Aww! ! My dear books! !
You are so valuable for me like no others
My journey of life started from the small letters
I saw in your pages.
You are like the steps
Which take me to the height of success
This is a journey
Both outwardly and inwardly
My thoughts, views and expressions
Have been fashioned by the words
I have gathered from your pages.
You carry the wisdom of ages
You are the teacher, philosopher and guide
When I feel low, you comfort me with many stories
You have empowered me
with your wisdom and knowledge
You have guided me in turbulence
Like a counselor, you have comforted me in distress.
You give me company when I am alone
With your fairy tales you have fired my imagination
Sometimes I feel so dear to you
That I want to be a leaf of you
I want that when new people will come
They will find me sitting in a bookshelf
Inside your written pages!
@Bharati Nayak