Reading

Let the lines flow
as a river of life,
as a power flooding the soul,
endless, effervescent, exceptional
for in that second
every sense slips into the ink
we are truly completely alive.

Without letting it become
a river in which we immerse
they remain just words,
mere mental mannequins.

The difference
is closing a book’s cover
and walking away
untouched by the experience,
which turns into a habit
so easy to repeat.