When I Read

When I read A window opens The writer plants a seed My life and the characters' become interwoven. Sometimes they keep me awake, thinking, at night Sometimes they make me hurt deep, deep down Sometimes they change my mind about what's wrong, what's right Sometimes it hurts so much I fear I would drown. The brains remains critical and rational The brain says they're not real But the heart knows true terror and sorrow The heart argues that it feels. People give me weird looks When I laugh, when I cry. But I believe everything in the books Call me stupid, but I buy all the "lies". I find truth in fiction I see what life is all about I see the thin line between salvation and damnation I learn how to be an adult. Although sometimes as strange as it may seem As unclear as seeing through a mist As hazy as a fading dream The magic does exist.