PAD Challenge Day 17- prompt: Write a poem that reveals something.
Revealing and Concealing
Sitting quietly upon the shelf
Bound up tight
Golden letters stamped
Upon your cover
Spanish leather
Browns in sixty different shades
Red as rich as time itself
Calling softly
Color of the blood
Secrets written in
Between every word
Printed neatly on the page
Bound by hand
Tell the story
Of a man
Birth to death
Catch it if you can
Time from birth to death is always too short, especially when one stands on the brink of eternity, looks back.