Dark Side of an Unread Book

Dark Side of an Unread Book

Pressed within the closed book,
they writhe upon the pages
in unbreathing silence —
forgotten characters —
with their stories long buried
in flat darkness.
Between each line,
throughout each neglected page,
their ghosts wander among
the skeletons of empty words
mingling midst the smell of musty paper.
They long for just a breath,
a new beginining,
so the bones of words may rise from the dust,
put on flesh and live again.