Except For To Find Light

For what is writing or reading except for to find light.
A window or lantern or lamp to make bright.
The words on a page that welcomes you there.
Containing a visual idea to be shared.
Of intrigue or suspense or a journey through both.
To encourage your imagination to wonder and coast.
Down long winding roads through portals of time.
To swim across channels and find mountains to climb.
With characters you meet, without fear or hesitation.
From all walks of life and various locations.
Inviting you in from the darkness of days.
To provide you with friendships that can't be displayed.
In everyday scenarios of living day to day.
While there's work to be done and bills to be paid.
And people who care not for relationships.
Unless they are the center of your attentive gifts.
For words are the footwork of many a thought.
That encourages your mind to believe in what's taught.
Ambitions and courage, friendships and love,
values of things you have never been part of.
To keep away darkness that creeps in through times.
When no one is there with you there by your side.
And tries to surround you and hold you instead.
In chains of it's abusing thoughts lacing your head.
Taking the window seat away from your chair.
Turning off lights to tug at your hair.
To taunt and to plunder your known world of such.
Words, faces, places that offer you much.
More to think about at any given time.
Spaces and destinations the words make to combine.
You to the light for which you need to see.
To destroy the endless dark that would ever be.
There to stop reading how a warm's summer day.
Became a years adventure through a most distant place.
Where cobble stone roads, lined with old stone buildings,
gave way to a party and people swinging from ceilings.
Then brought together people for an adventure to share
upon yonder mountains in search of treasures rare.
And two unknown souls who had never met,
learned to face the difficulties of their journey without frets.
Over coming difficulties, raging rivers, sharp rocks.
Leading them to a cavern, and campfire coffee pots.
Instead of the dark which leaves the mind reeling.
From no visions to expand or living life feelings.
That explain to you newness of a friend is okay.
To enjoy and return to another along the way.
For what is writing or reading except for to find light.
A window or lantern or lamp to make bright.
The words on a page that welcomes you there.
Containing a visual idea to be shared.

Jade Jaspers