Why speak alone when
The lives of many
Resound through telling
Decades of stories
Adventures spanning
Continents flourishing 
Details lived experience 
Pictures of the mind
Old time movie reel
Spinning behind eyes
Us watching the reveal
Based on non-fiction 
Told with endless love

When people and places
Elude you now
Take a solitary bow
For work of fiction
Vicariously through 
Imaginary friends
No less delightful
On the hearing
Though how marvellous
To have dedications
On front pages
To those who wielded
The wand of pen
Beside you

Vain attempts skimming 
Over and over same lines
Soothing brain waves while
It recounts the time
A fair medusa lured me
Completely innocently
Its venom only treated
Wounds still weeping
So intoxicating was she
There is no end to it
Body addicted 
Making no moves 
To cure this high
Elixir of life
Administered swifly
By the touch
Of her eyes