Let Me Treat You Like A Book

Let Me Treat You Like A Book

A Poem by Laura Harrison

Let me treat you like a book

I want to read you from beginning to end

to discover the story that lies within you

I want to sit with you beside a burning fire

with a cup of hot chocolate

while it’s raining outside

allow me to breathe in your beautiful scent

and to stroke your spine with my fingertips

I want to take care of you

and to make sure that you never get damaged

or gather dust in your heart

I want to be the person who will never tire of you

and I want to carry you with me wherever I go

let me treat you like a book

because you know that I would never

do anything to hurt one of those.

© 2014 Laura Harrison


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I liked the poetry.
"Let me treat you like a book
I want to read you from beginning to end"
When we treat someone like a book and want to know the complete story. We have create true connection. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

Posted 9 Years Ago


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Sue
Sometimes I feel a poem warming the cockles of my heart and this is such a poem. Lovely image and such great feelings radiate from it....thank you :)

Posted 9 Years Ago


I liked your story because it resonates with how I feel, and no doubt many other will feel the same. Good poems always relate and good poems resonate. The also reflect truth and that truth is universal and common in mankind.

It is a little prosaic in parts, could n=be betetr pruned down a bit. Suggestions:



Let me treat you like a book
read you from beginning to end
discover your story that lies within

To sit with you beside a burning fire
a cup of hot chocolate in my hand
while it’s raining outside
allow me to breathe in your beautiful scent [excellent]
and to stroke your spine with my fingertips

I will to take care of you
cherish you
no dust will cloud your heart

I will never tire of you
carry you-we two together

let me treat you like a book
because you know that I would never
do anything to hurt one of those. [weak ending]

Vrery good, just ideas but not for you to use, just ideas to show, play aorund with it and see.


Posted 9 Years Ago


I love this because you describe the perfect bookworm. Books are a huge part of my life and I'm amazed by how you were to compare to a human relationship. Curling up by the fire, breathing in the scent. I always smell a books pages when I first buy it, I can just never get enough of how luscious and welcoming the smell is. This was beautiful...so well done!

Posted 9 Years Ago


This is amazing.
Very well written.

Posted 9 Years Ago


:D wow its really an awesome thought and so optimistic... really who wants to do bad to their books..
Thumbs up for you
It made me speechless........... because within this you really have depicted a way to live peacefully awesome.....

Posted 9 Years Ago


This is a beautiful metaphor. It perfectly describes loving a person, how you know very little about them at first, and then, as you read more and more you discover and begin to love them. How, when you know everything about a person, they are the most important thing in the world, and you wish to protect and care for them. Great poem, it was a lovely read.

Posted 10 Years Ago


I loved the descriptions in this poem.
A great write.

Posted 10 Years Ago


Laura, this was absolutely beautiful. I'm a complete and utter bookworm. I could read 10-20 books a week and I'm not kidding, the amount of money I spend on a book is ridonkulous!

I loved this one, relatable indeed!

Posted 10 Years Ago



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Laura Harrison
Laura Harrison

Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom



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My name is Laura, I am 25 and I write poetry to understand life. more..

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