Immortality for Inspiration

These words that kept you spell-bound and awe-inspired and slipping off the edge of your seat. These words that made the floor disappear beneath you and made the sky turn different shades and moved you to tears and laughs- and brought your worst, most impossible fears to life.

With magic-filled verses that kept souls alive and made sinners become saints and saints become sinners- someone discovered the secret to immortality. 

Turn the first page and you step into someone's mind, the universes they have created and the lives that they've imagined, and no matter what has happened, whether these men and women have suffered or died or forgotten their own voices; they live on within those pages, ready to teach you new lessons with old words. They wait for you to bring them back to life, longing to awaken and treating each reader as a new face with an unknown story of their own. 

Have you ever thought about it? 

You're living the most personal, magnified moments within those worlds. You're giving a part of yourself, your attention, your mind, your thoughts, reactions, hopes, emotions- to those old pages. But, every time you read and re-read, you get a different message. You look at things from a different perspective.

Maybe you're getting different answers because you've asked different questions. Perhaps the book can tell you've changed, it realizes that you've lost something or found something and gives in accordance to the way your story is going. The way you pick a book up and put it down- that book reads you and lets you go and tells you what you need to hear.

What if it's fate? 

What if we keep the writers alive and they give us someone to talk to? It seems like a fair trade, immortality for inspiration. 

Then again, maybe you're just taking a look into my mind, seeing the universes that I've created, seeing the words through my eyes, and pushing me forward with your 'Once upon a time's and 'happily ever after's.