Like a book

Being in love is like allowing yourself to be read like a book

To be vulnerable

To open your pages

Allow someone to look beyond the cover

And into the contents

To find what kind of comments have been left by past readers

To not just see and judge the synopsis

But to find out the real story

And to know what happens in the end

To highlight and book mark

To dog tag their favorite parts

To insert themselves and interact.

Opening that cover can be like

releasing a heavy weight

Finally opened, but comfortable.

Your fingers aren't a violation

or an intrusive invader.

It's a comforting caress.

Removing the dust from never opening up

But feeling finally secure that this reader

will not judge

will read through the lines

and see you

for what you really are

rather than making a decision

based off of the ratty spine

and worn pages.

They'll see the imperfections but understand

that this is a book that has gone through readers

that never thought to take care of it.

To only pick it up when they needed entertainment,

entertainment that never really held their attention anyway

because they couldn't care to care.

But this time it's different.

A reader with eyes that are looking to read.

A mind that wants to know and understand.

A mind that will look over every word carefully

and read and reread.

A pair of eyes that will finally put this book

at peace.

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