MY TRUE BUT UNSEEN BOOK OF LIFE

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New Prompt: Write a story or poem about finding a book that told your life story, but it wasn't written by you.

MY TRUE BUT UNSEEN BOOK OF LIFE

I found a well-used little book, flowers stuck to its sides--
I then read all my stories; the ones I realize
have followed me where I have gone, no matter how I've tried
to get away, to start anew--they follow me to guide

me as I travel through the beauty of life's shores.
And, in my little book, I found so much I had ignored
and lost, so much that made me ME! I felt a pang, and tore
some precious loosened pages out, to save what I adore.

But, in that honest, little book that I had never seen,
was my whole life in view at once, a life I did not mean
to leave behind; my fondest dreams at last redeemed,
and now that I've met them again, I've reinforced life's seams!