The Joy Of Access To A Library Of Books Is Celebrated In This Poem Poem by Reginald Reid

LIBRARY BOOKS

Come into the labyrinthine passages of mystic mysteries and facts
where fantasies and hopes are all played out in neatly packaged acts,
where answers and the meaning of the questions that you face
are all about you, catalogued in one resourceful place.

Are you seeking love, romance perhaps, or maybe other tastes
like murder, intrigue or travel to some other foreign place?
Would you like a cooking book with recipes to make
such as an indulgent, creamy, chocolate iced, cherry filled mud cake?

Is ancient history your favoured study topic?
Are you interested in how explorers sailed the humid tropics?
Or do you feel more comfortable with the animals perhaps,
their territorial habitat and how they evade men's traps?

The stars and all the universe are there for you to learn
how in The Milky Way there's no butter there to churn.
But chemistry and physics are open wide to see
what makes the earth perform its daily mystery.

Oh, don't forget or overlook the human body too,
medicine's a fast evolving scene with much that scientists do.
There are works of art so rare and inaccessible,
their creators and their times for free and visions all ineffable.

So much is found in library books where access is for free
they open minds and present visions there for you to see.
No matter what you seek in prose or poetry,
in fact or fiction, either way it's a library book for me.