Her eyes

Caught mine

The silence

Entwined between the shelves

Reduced to

This one moment

I blink

And she’s gone

She’s running

To her home

To her world

To someone who isn’t me

I catch

Their whispers:

“How about I take you to dinner?”

“Sure! I’d love that.”

The smile in her voice

Breaks a sacred rule

Screaming in my mind

They leave

And I don’t realize

The binding I’d ripped...

I walked towards the library

To pick up a new book

But as I turned the corner

I didn’t like the look

Of people crowded inside

I could overhear their chatter

I picked up on the word “closing”

And clearly it would matter

And then again I heard that word

Coming from my right

I saw a sad librarian

It wasn’t a pleasant sight

I asked her what was happening

Why she felt so low

And then that’s when s...

A favorite place

the expectation of solitude

but not today

They are thinking so loudly

Don’t they know the unwritten rule of silence?

Older man: I woke up next to my cold, dead wife

Child: I want to read good

Young Woman: What I would give to not be barren!

Teenage Boy: Why do I have feelings for him?

Elderly Woman: The money won’t buy me time

I want to tell them

although pain runs deep

it r...

Hi, my name is Jameson, but my friends call me JJ. I’m 12, but my birthday is in a few days, Friday, February 19th! It’s only a few days away, as it’s Tuesday, February 16th. Anyways, I was going about my school day like normal, and during my time in the library I overheard something exciting!

First off, I have to explain about how IMPORTANT this birthday is. It’s not just any old birthday, it’s ...

The library is like a little lonely place,

Far from falling into space,

But she overheard a man,

Talking to his oat bran.

“Oh what a devilish plan.

I shall now go face to face,

And my steps I shall retrace,

If I want to see

You be free,

And so shall I my dear.”...

Hush hush… first rule of a library.

Our minds be the loudest though.

Had an extremely loud mind that needed a space to relax and sink in the reality of my living.

So I walk into this.. Library.

Everyone’s glued to something.

Something to learn, read, research.. or jus sit in peace.

I was ofcourse one of them.

I had developed reading a bit late into my 20s and was struggling to keep my focus on...

Walking feet in the library.

WALKING FEET.

Of course you can get dinosaur books.

No, you can’t get that one.

Because it’s a hundred and forty pages.

When you can read, you can get that book.

A book on pterosaurs?

Yes, you read that pterosaur book already.

Yes, you read that pterosaur book already.

No, I didn’t know your pet Quetzalcoatlus has the largest wingspan ever.

No, you didn’t rea...

Whispers flicker,

With the turn of a page,

Rain beats down heavy on panes.

As I sip on my tea,

I hear a faint plea,

“Please sir,

Could you help me today?”

“Certainly sir, what is it?”

“I’m stuck!

And I’d do well to add,

I’m dyslexic as fuck!”

I hear a sharp gasp,

As his helper replies

“But knowing your language

Is primary!

If you can’t read or write,

With the gift of your sight,

T...

I wasn’t paying attention,

I wasn’t pre warned,

I had my face in story’s and knowledge,

My intensions on school and art,

Then I seen you,

And you seen me ,

And you had intention and looks,

You had me the second you looked me in the eyes,

We were nerds to the world ,

But you were my whole world,

Then I heard,

You weren’t who you said you were,

You did something I cant mentally neglect,

Definition o...

I overheard in the library

A little bit of crying

She told of her loss

And how she felt like dying

Only six weeks along

Then taken all the same

She didn’t do anything

But felt totally to blame

Dismissed by her story

By the doctors and best friend

Saying she was just late

There was nothing there to end

She felt hopeless

And had no baby to hold

She’d been trying for a while

But may fear the thou...