By Daniel Paiz

World Book Day is April 23rd and was named so by UNESCO in the 1990s. Books are pretty important, as there’s different perspectives to consider, different life experiences, and lessons from cover to cover. It does seem that reading isn’t done as much anymore. That has to change, because it might help to change the current state of this blue marble if more people gained new viewpoints. NaPoWriMo is a good way to get back into reading too.

Book It

Not bothering to read expectations because you want to be done,

deciding to agree without scanning for limitations,

is kind of baffling and harmful behavior.

Nobody is asking one to read the terms and conditions of social media sites.

Instead, read the one page stating what you need to do for help,

scan pages requiring your best effort,

despite the boredom bordering on distaste,

where are you going anyway?

Collections, histories, ourstories, and traditions

were passed down by word of mouth.

When those elders and story keepers were murdered or enslaved,

lifelines and roots were snapped quicker than the moon exiting night.

So pulps, materials, trees were sacrificed to recollect

What had been learned.

What had been experienced.

What had been lived.

As time rolls on,

those lessons seem to be disappearing in twilight.

That sparkle of human connection

through retaining what was and what could be,

can’t continue to be missing.

For doom is inevitable

if lessons already learned get repeated due to being impatient and lazy.