A Necessity of Life

Literature energizes the searching mind
teasing it to its own creativity. In
the absence of books there is unmindful
sterility. Language entices, it expands
vocabulary and vision. It becomes a 
inspirational landscape for the brain 
searching for enticement. A library 
represents the landscape of excitement, 
one to be explored with passion and 
dedication. From one soul's creative 
genius to the hungry perusal of the next, 
humankind indulges itself in the 
fascination of stories to be shared, 
luxuriated within, cherished and preserved. 
Without books the landscape of the mind
becomes a yawning exercise in vacuity
a passive, disinterested scene where
ennui becomes master. Life limits
itself to a vapid desolation devoid of 
drama and interest, the crises of humanity 
and the triumphs of the spirit unexplored.