The Realm of Tales

Once upon a time…

There was a girl,

And within her,

A thousand souls lived and breathed.

And as she walked the halls of her

Small-town public high school,

She walked the fragile lives of the

Characters from One Foot in Eden.

She felt the voracious egos of the

Mister and Missus Macbeth;

She dreamt the nightmares

Winston Smith did of Big Brother;

She understood the whirlpool of

Victor Frankenstein’s contrasting emotions;

She slowly grasped the innocence of

Jay Gatsby;

And the lives that resided within her,

 Gradually shaped the girl that

Walked the halls of her

Small-town public high school

Into a reader who

Experienced many, many lives.

With these sighing souls

Diligently wrapping her heart

With threads of love,

Care, and Compassion

She became a young woman,

Who walks the hallways of her

Small-town public high school

With each story imprinted

In her character.

In each life I lived,

I became who I am.

A Reader.