Books saved my life

No one would know this now 

From the way I suck up words 

Books done in one sleepless night 

It seems I've been reading my whole life 

But in third grade 

I read at a kindergarten level 

Pictures were all I knew 

Everyone assumed I would never read 

Slowly I climbed 

Eleventh-grade level in fifth grade 

I found myself in the worlds on those pages 

Learned I could be myself 

That's it's beautiful to be happy 

I dreamed and dreamed 

Of fantasy lands I wished were real life 

I wondered what it would be like 

To ride a dragon 

To meet an elf 

To fly on a broomstick 

To fall in love 

My current self 

Is built from my childhood dreams 

Fueled from middle-grade fiction 

Harry Potter 

The Penderwicks 

The Hobbit 

The Green Glass House 

Tamora Pierce 

I'm a romantic thanks to YA novels 

I'm a dreamer thanks to strong women from A to Z 

I'm an artist thanks to picture books 

I'm me thanks to that teacher in third grade 

Who believed in me like no one else  

 

Posted in response to the challenge Literary you.

Amelia_v

VT

18 years old