<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0234 The Book To The Reader</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The book said: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I serve you. And<br>as you take from me, I<br>give myself to you; even<br>before you begin<br>to read me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I note how gently<br>you pick me up from<br>where you laid me down, <br>pausing just before you touch me; and<br>I feel your mind surrendering <br>with relief all other matters which<br>weigh down the mind; as one<br>who sheds his clothes and dives<br>into cool, clear water on a sunny day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when you begin to read me, I<br>feel your hands, not gripping me but<br>sensing the film of air between<br>your hands and my cover; the lovely<br>detachment of a shared love; you<br>respect me for my outer self as<br>you respect what I have to give</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when you put me down, <br>you put me down so tenderly, <br>first looking for the perfect place<br>to leave me; with, I sense, <br>an inward sigh of satisfaction, gratitude, but which<br>meets the sigh of parting; like<br>the parting pause of lovers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and, like lovers who have grown old together, <br>we put out of mind the passing sigh of<br>yet a different kind; that one of us one day<br>will be – not the first, that’s easy – but<br>the second one to go… that’s<br>the eternal test of love: loss to be measured<br>against gratitude, the final laying down<br>on the altar, of the book of life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all this I appreciate; <br>did you too know this? are we not<br>fortunate in each other, you and I? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">said the book.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460698" data-title="0234 The Book To The Reader de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The book said: I serve you. And as you take from me, I give myself to you; even before you begin to read me. I note how gently you pick me up from where you laid me down, pausing just before you touch me; and I feel your mind surrendering wit..."></div> </div> </div>

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