Reading Across the Universe

Today I feel sad and lonely

All alone, with nowhere to look

Deep inside this dark alley

So I sat down and open a book.

Page after page, my hands flipped
Word by word, my eyes ate

To what extent, my heartbeat skipped

Making me forget how to hate.

I looked around and saw the stars
They're beautiful, dreaming or not

Then I traveled, starting from Mars

Guess I really read books a lot.

I met creatures, aliens I think
I wasn't scared, but amazed

Not a second, my eyes dared to blink

Looking around the purple haze.

Then reality snapped back at me
I flipped the last page of the book

It's sad and it hurts to see

That I'm alone again in my nook.

Reading helps me escape reality
It gives me magic to break the curse

And travel to the other side of diversity

Reading across the universe.

*I made this poem when my sister asked help for her project. She's not the literary type of girl so I did it for her. She asked me to write a poem entitled Reading Across the Universe in the middle of the night and said she need it the following morning. Great. Just great.