Brain Bits To Go

NaPoWriMo Day 2

The prompt for day two was to write about a beloved childhood object you still have. I didn’t have much as a kid, and less still has made it this far with me. But books are something I tend to hold onto. One in particular fit this.

The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling

You’ve been a friend these many years

From you so much I learned

Were once together every day

Those pages so fast turned

We’d visit less as time went on

Your fickle friend it’s true

Yet any new friend that I made

Compared them all to you

You made me laugh and made me think

Sometimes you made me cry

The friends I’ve made since first we met

Must these things as least try.

Just this past week I sat with you

Thought hard upon your age

And understood some things you taught

Were best left on the page

Still, there is much that’s good in you

Good lessons to be learned

So, I’ll still visit time to time

‘Til my last page is turned.

Cheers,