I fell in love with a stack of parchment
With beautiful tattoos of ink
Hundreds of pages glued together
It was my missing link

I fell in love with some words on paper
It had an old and dry feel
The words connected it all together
And the cover was its seal

I fell in love with every paragraph
Every chapter which I saw
The story with its colour
The emotions felt so raw

I stayed in love when it was over
The words I had read through
They still warmed my sobbing heart
And I stayed it true

I’m still in love with the parchment
And the tattooed words on white
Even though we’re not together anymore
I’ll use it as my light

There is a monster in every book
It’s hiding as a friend
It’s not the one slain by the hero
It’s the blank page at the end


-By Kira Hawthorn