Visit

We stood tightly in the library

holding tight to our stories,

some unsaid

and some screaming loud from the roof of that

old library building,

which stands tall in the heart of the city

bringing solace to the crestfallen souls of the city.

No single voice is privileged over another

each has its own story

ready to scripted or dog-eared

by the other lonely soul

the lessons of life,

nicely tucked between those pages.

We sure will be wiser

the next time we read

from cover to cover

without getting lost between the pages.

A fleeting touch of these yellow pages

will instill a lifelong wisdom

to my withering soul.

I might be lucky enough to find those missing pieces

which will make me whole.

A broken spine and my tattered life

holds an uncanny resemblance to each other

earmarked with those soulless fingers

never to be visited again.

Oh! why these haunted alleys of this building

cuts me deep every time I visit

why do I leave impressions of my bleeding soul

on every page of every book

I come here to read.

Why every time I come to a missing page,

it seems like a piece of my lost soul?

About the contributor: Megha Sood lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is a contributing author/editor at GoDogGO Cafe, Candles Online, Free Verse Revolution, Whisper and the Roar, Poets Corner and contributing editor at Ariel Chart. Her works have been featured in 521 Magazine #Sideshow, Oddball, Pangolin review, Fourth and Sycamore,KOAN ( Paragon press), Spill words Press, Indian periodicals, Literary heist, Little Rose Magazine and many more. Her poetry has recently been published in the anthology “We will not be silenced” by Indie Blu(e) Publishing and upcoming in three other anthologies by US, Australian and Canadian Press. She recently won the 1st prize in NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Mental Health Poetry contest. She blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.