Conform my soul

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Photograph I : J.R.R. Tolkien – The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit

Conform my soul

It is a small story.

No one ever saw it, because

the letters cannot be touched.

He sits in a small simple corner

lightened by a candle.

I am not there, I know.

He is reading a book, his eyes

can’t see because he has read it

more than a million times.

His lips do not whisper because he is lost.

He tries to lay down the book of his hands.

And there, he goes.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

April 18, 2019

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9281787-i-can-see-if-one-person-really-understands-a-book

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9265355-i-looked-into-an-old-forest-you-could-say-it

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : Tilburg, the Netherlands, Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

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