As your meager fingers feel,
The parchment yellow paper.
As your sphere eyes
Reads the bold black text.
And as your sharp sense of odor,
Smells Shakespeare’s perfume.
You get this extraordinary feeling in you,
That no words can describe.

Every time you turn the page,
A new story awaits.
Every time you read a book,
Your eyes see the world of your mind.
Every time you interpret an author’s thoughts,
You get this truly bizarre feeling in you,
The feeling you get when you read a book.

When you read a book
You’re like the sun and the book, the planets,
The story whirls around you.

Reading is indeed a cure,
To the agony of the heart and mind.
It gives us this healing feeling inside us,
Which nothing else in the world will ever give.
The feeling you get when you read a book.

Never in the infinite time we have
Will we ever get that enthralling feeling,
The feeling you get when you read a book.

-Raechel Thara Davids

Senior Grade 1