Turn a few pages
Look through the eyes of someone else
Be a part of their world, their life
Isn't that why we read?
Microcosms and macrocosms
Coming to life through pages
Stained with ink
But what if one day
This all ended?
What if one day
The sky fell on our heads
Like in the Asterix comics
What if one day, literacy died
And took with it all the literature it could find?
What would we do on the day
Every writer became devoid of ideas
And what if that day were tomorrow?
Where would we go?
Who would give us food for thought?
Where would the fairy tales be
That our mothers used to send us to sleep?
What if one day
There were no more novels
Or bestsellers
What if one day
All the bookstores burnt down?
The Bible says Armageddon happens when the Four ride
I say it'll happen the day books die
The Bilge Master
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