The Girl Who Loves to Read
Tucked away
Just enough
Out of the path
Of so many
Travels
In a busy
International airport
1/5
Tucked away
Just enough
Out of the path
Of so many
Travels
In a busy
International airport
1/5
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Comments
Girl
Reads
As if the
Rest of us
Weary travelers
Do not
Exist
Not amused
By the heavy
Volume of
Foot traffic
2/5
Endless march
Of tired feet
Headed to
Terminals
And gates
Waiting to
Take them to
Faraway places
She sets
With book
In hand
Oblivious
To the crazy
Toing and
Froing of so
Many people
Busily passing
By
3/5
Of another
World
Another time
She sets motionless
Except to adjust
Her posture
Perhaps
From needing
To get more
Comfortable
Or perhaps
Adjusting to
The next scene
In the story
That requires
Her to readjust
Setting in the
Middle on a raised
Platform meant
4/5
Special events
She sets emerged
In a different
World
One that is
So foreign
From those of
Us who have
Zeroed in on
Her
We sat transfixed
At this seven
Year old
Who had managed
To escape what
The rest of us
Had to endure
And yet in
Her
We became
Part of her
Story
5/7
Did not realize
Was even happening
A story that
We all became
Involved in
A story about
A young girl
Named Frida
Who had managed
Something we adults
Could not do
Remove herself
Form where she
Was
Into a place
Miles
And centuries
Away
6/7
Took
Was a
Book
About
Harry Potter
She is now
The story
Myself
And many
Like me on that
Day
Will always
Remember
The power
Of a Book
And the young
Girl
Who loves to
Read
-Chuck
7/7