Who Is Your Audience? Poem by Denis Martindale

Each writer and each poet knows
An audience awaits
And every day it grows and grows
And that it celebrates...
For all that's taught and all that's pleased,
For all the time it took,
To help the greatest and the least
To sit and read each book...
And even if a single page,
That took some time to share,
With wisdom till its final stage,
Because someone took care...
It's only then that readers find
A treasure trove within,
As if to reach and bless Mankind,
If pure and without sin...

Great films are based on books that sell
And that's the Gospel Truth,
Yet comics have their fans as well,
The Big Bang Theory's proof.
In submarines, when time allows,
Both captain and the crew
Are known to rest and then to browse
Great novels old and new...
Consider readers young and old,
On this Earth and in space,
For astronauts, we're also told,
Like tales they can embrace...
A billion readers every day
Were taught to read and write
By parents who first showed the way
To make their futures bright!


Denis Martindale March 2017.