Storybooks

The world of books
Of movies
Of stories that are not ours.
We yearn for these worlds that seem
to transcend our smallness;
We dream to be someone else.
Someone extraordinary.

But if only our dreams would turn in on themselves,
And see the world within -
The world of books
Of movies
Of stories that are ours and only ours -
We would see the magic that threads its way through the quilt of our lives.

And how beautiful this quilt,
How absolutely extraordinary

That books have been written
And movies have been made
And stories told through the hours;
The years;
And the moments
that piece together this enchanted reality.