How would you read
\nthe book of life?
\nWould you start
\nwhere the sun shines?
\nWhere love perfected you?
\nWhere the world
\nshowed you its treasures?
\nOr would you start
\nin the heartache of death,
\nthe pain of birth?
\nWould you read
\nthe last chapter first?
\nThe middle,
\nwhere the plot thickens,
\nor at the beginning,
\nwhere you heard your voice
\nfor the first time?<\/p>\n
I would start on the fly jacket,
\nthe last paragraph
\nof the last chapter,
\nwhere everything falls apart.
\nWhere I ask
\nfor the door to be open,
\nthe window raised up,
\nthe dearest face in my life
\nin front of my own,
\nand a resolve,
\nnot to be afraid
\nor heartbroken,
\nand everyone be spared
\nthis fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How would you read the book of life? Would you start where the sun shines? Where love perfected you? Where the world showed you its…<\/p>\n