\u201cBooks were safer than other people anyway.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n
In merely a week, I have traveled the globe
\nVia airplane, by boat and on trains
\nI\u2019ve swum with the dolphins and ridden a camel
\nI\u2019ve crossed o\u2019er England\u2019s fertile plains
\nI\u2019ve gone back in time to when dinosaurs roamed
\nI\u2019ve met not one Indian, but four
\nI\u2019ve learned how to sew, to knit and to cook
\nAnd how to grow plants at the shore
\nI\u2019ve seen people born and I\u2019ve watched others die
\nI\u2019ve witnessed great love and heartbreak
\nI\u2019ve cheered for the triumphs and cried through such pain
\nThat I can honestly say my heart sank
\nA good book can do that, as it fills up the mind
\nWith food for the soul deep within
\nFor once you are lost, you are just as soon found
\nIn the pages from an author\u2019s pen
\nOne is never so lonely, so small or so blind
\nThan before a good book hits his hand
\nFor when lost in its pages, engaging his mind
\nLife is thereby evermore grand
\nFor gone are the trials, the troubles abound
\nCast aside for the moments or three
\nThat within a good book his inner psyche be sound
\nBathed in peace and such great sanctity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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