A Case for Reading

By: Chris Commodore, © 2006

Be sure to embrace reading,
For it opens up the mind;
To the world of hidden meaning,
And the yarns of human kind.

The secrets of society,
The mysteries of the skies;
A healing for anxiety,
Exposing social lies.

Appraisal of the theories,
That madcap dreamers make;
Acceptance of realities;
That are sometimes hard to take.

You’ll dig out horrid stories.
Enlightenment you’ll find;
Truths tucked away in cemeteries,
And jewels left behind.

Read in the midst of revelry,
Or silently in bed.
To free your mind from slavery,
And deceptions you’ve been fed.

Oh, like gods you’ll be empowered,
For the tasks that lie ahead.
Not by ignorance devoured,
Seeing, hearing, naught that’s said.

A lighthouse for the spirit,
Reveals life’s baleful shoals;
Read and you’ll win on merit,
And rope in cantering goals.