Over your shoulder
please don t mind me if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine for I ve been watching and wondering why your face is changing with every line you read.
All those lines and circles
to me
a mystery.
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.
If she would be wonderful
but my pride is in the way.
I cannot read to save my life
I m so ashamed to say.
I live in silence
afraid to speak of my life of darkness because I cannot read.
For all those lines and circles
to me
a mystery.
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.
If she could it would be wonderful.
Then I wouldn t need someone else s eyes to see what s in front of me.
No one guiding me.
It makes me humble to be so green at what every kid can do when he learns A to Z
but all those lines and circles just frighten me and I fear that I ll be trampled if you don t reach for me.
Before I run I ll have to take a fall.
And then pick myself up
so slowly I ll devour every one of those books in the Tower of Knowledge.

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