Page Escape

Find bookmarks filled with promise

Stories as essential as family embraces

Words flow in mind with a certain calmness

Transport my soul to exciting new places

Comfort arrives with characters unknown

Hope and life breathed into my dread

Friends to keep if only to expose

Darkness without them but instead

Their light and happiness keep me going

Books holding me above water

Authors help me by showing

Greatness in worded order

Seeing their lives lived courageous

Escaping through the pages