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# Books do have a soul
- URL: https://www.cjb.today/books-do-have-a-soul/
- Published: 2024-05-12T17:54:03.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-03T20:12:28.000Z
- Description: Show me someone who doesn't love a book and I will show you a liar....
- Author: CJB
- Tags: vss365, Poems & Poetry, Blog Seeds 🌱, Soul Coaching, Creativity & Art, Soul Happiness, Health & Healing, Mental Health & Wellness, Kindness & Love, Home & Living, Life Musings, Life Quotes, Psychology & Mindset, Relationships, Self Love & Improvement, Wisdom, Tips & Advice, Writing & Books, Spiritual & Philosophy, Tech & Digital, Twalks & Shows

I run a dusty fingertip along the cracked edges of the books on my bookshelf....

They stare back at me .... in silence .... pondering .... lending me a new thought.  
Would a true bibliophile listen to spineless audio books they have recently bought?

Do the melodic tones of the narrator add soul to each silent word?  
But I cannot hold the audio, feel its weight, isn't that absurd?  
  
And what about the trees?  
They're no longer swaying in the breeze!  
  
I flick through paper lives, one by one, until their story feels brittle.  
I suddenly like audio books more than before, just a little.  
  
As the bookshelf creeks, I yank out another slice of an author's mind,  
I feel the book's bind clutching layers of pressed paper enshrined.  
  
How can I love a digital book compared to paper felt bookmarks?  
Those lunch time reading escapes sitting on benches in parks.   
  
My knuckles knock against the bookshelf, a cut blinks blood instantly....  
I watch the book fall, tasting each timeless second, so distantly.... 

And in the moment before the spine and pages break apart,   
I understand books are much more than creative art.  
  
With a splash of blood - I lunge - to break its sudden fall,  
And in that final moment I realize books - do have a soul!

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