Chapter Two

"I'm sorry but I lost your place."

"Oh, I'm on Chapter Two."

"The book mark slid. Do you know the page?"

"Oh, it's always Chapter Two.
For Chapter Two it is that speaks
To me from ancient graves long gone,
And whispers me into the morning of future,
Beckoned to the Great Beyond.
And Chapter Two kindles my fire, night and day,
And enlightens me as to the “How,”
And Chapter Two co-habitates with me, here,
And sings meaning to me, Right Now."

"But will you get to Chapter Three,
Or ever to the conclusion?"

"I've finished it a thousand times
Only to engulf the illusion,
But what I seek, has nothing to say
About anything else that I do,
Like the way I find the love and the life
That abides in Chapter Two."

-jenn long