The Novel

It is a gift, an altruistic offering
and at the very same time a
selfish self-affirmation, one that
brings pride and satisfaction to the
gifted writer capable of forming
the magic of the alphabet into
words and descriptions of their
very own adventure of imagination
or transcription of experience
making of it a conveyance
available to strangers a mode
whereby anyone who values the
prize of reading has been enabled
through that medium to travel as
near or as far as they might wish
exerting their own imagination in
the magical process of immersion
in the mind of another, an intimacy
without touch yet with sensual
occupancy of the most emotional
kind, two lives touching without
either knowing what has occurred.