Books

Books can take you anywhere:

across the golden desert sand,

over the silver waves of the sea,

up into the empty world of space,

under the foamy waterfall.

Books can change your life;

they can make your cat a vicious tiger,

your room a dangerous forest,

your friends secret spies.

Books can change you:

once you’ve lived a thousand other lives,

you are different from before.

Like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon,

the world is new, and so are you.