She read books.
Devoured the words.
Let sentences consume her.
Drowned in the writer’s thoughts,
she experienced a liberation she long sought.

♥

She read books.
Wallowed in their magic.
Allowed the stories
to fill the gaping holes.
And heal scars the world
her branded upon her soul.

♥

But more than anything,
she read books to leave herself,
bound between the pages,
with a hope to meet bits of her former self,
when she shall read those books, again.

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Asha Seth