Books Fall Open

by David McCord

Books fall open,

you fall in,

delighted where you've never been;

hear voices not once heard before,

reach world on world through door on door;

find unexpected things

locked up beyond imaginings.

What might you be,

perhaps become,

because one book is somewhere?

Some wise delver

into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it.

True books will venture,

dare you out, whisper secrets,

maybe shout across the gloom to you in need,

who hanker for a book to read.