Poetry Thursday

 Today is Poetic Thursday hosted by Teddy and Angel Sammy at Two Spoiled Cats

Today’s Inspiration

Laura was alone in a dark room

No sign of life no flower a bloom

She was afraid the room would be her tomb

And a single lit candle to offset the gloom

She ran her hands across the wall

Taking small steps so she would not fall

Then she banged her knee on something two feet tall

It was a desk and behind it a chair quite small

She picked up the candle from the floor

And placed it on the desk, its only decor

She opened and blindly reached in the drawer

And when she found a book it lifted her core

She handled the book like a delicate flower

And felt joy for the first time since being locked in this tower

To break the boredom she could devour

 the book in less than an hour

It opened her dark world to one filled with splendid imagination

And for the first time she felt no trepidation

The written word, to those in despair, is reason for celebration

And soon she was in a world of her old creation.

Before her opened lawns of green

With mountains in the distance and flower in between

And the darkness was drained by sunlight bright and clean

And she could see so much that she had not been able to be seen

And then a hand, strong and kind, reached out to her

She took it, and was pulled into the book where she began to transfer

From a poor girl to a princess demure 

Freed from the darkness and pain by the clever litterateur.