No longer Published
~ No longer Published ~
You are like a book
I never bothered to understand.
I was smitten by your pretty cover.
Oblivious to what you were about,
I flipped through your pages,
lusting only for the center fold.
I paid no attention to your poetry.
I failed to read between your lines,
never finding the luminous particular.
Cheating myself out of what you had to tell,
I put you back on the shelf and let you go to another.
I have read other books.
They could not capture my heart as you have.
You are the novel I should have cherished.
Every chapter, I could have shared with you.
A best seller that I could have had for my own,
autographed by your loving hand.
Only one copy of you published.
Now, you are off the shelf
and out of print.
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