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The Bookworm

By Sunanda Kesavadas in Poems » Short
Updated 21:11 IST Mar 29, 2025

Views » 81 | 2 min read

Never had a day passed,

Without a book in hand,

Stories, poems, biographies, every kind,

From every possible land.

No moment was spared,

Of the lust for the written word

As the mind's eye conceived images

Seen like the ground below, to a soaring bird

Nose in books, a bookworm I was called

And never did it bother me

A book was my happy space

The place I could be 

Peaceful and explore the whole world and beyond

As the bookworm devoured the pages

So it happened that it started telling its own stories

And here we are today, me with words spilling out

Hardly able to contain my glee

That finally

I have found my voice once more

There is no more hiding for the bookworm now

And I must somehow

Muster the courage to explore

My own voice, my own style, my own tales

Of places and people, known or unknown

As they say, come into my own

Find the wind for my sails!

Bookworm no more, but a book writer...

Come into the light 

 

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