She\'s a wanderer
A soul lost among the millions
But today
In the quiet afternoon she is not
For she is in one place
Where she can feel at home
Millions of souls surround her
Some are adventuring
Others are falling in love
No matter what they are doing within their stories
They are home
They beckon and call to her as birds call to the sky
Here in this, she has wings
She has freedom
No longer shackled by the chains of mortality
Or
By the restrictions of human laws
She can live forever
Be forever
Through these books
For as long as she can remember
Books have been there
Honestly helped raise this girl
She has decided to give back
She begins to write her own stories
Poems
She wants to give to the world
What all other authors have given her: hope
Watching her favorite heroines make it through their most trying times
Has helped her to see that she can as well
That all the trials she faces are not in vain
For if they can survive
Dragons
Witches
Starvation
Depression
A myriad more challenges
Then so can she
Through these pages
She can see that it is not impossible
She wants to share pieces of herself
The way others do
She will live forever through her words
Encase the lessons that have been ingrained
In her heart
Into paper and ink
So that in the future
Someone
Somewhere
Will
Hear or read
Her words
A change they will feel
A change in their heart
Sometimes so profound as she has often felt
Other times a more subtle change
That makes the trajectory for who that person will become
No matter what kind of change
She causes, she knows it will have meaning
Be impactful
This girl understands that it\'s not the big things
That make a difference but
The small things
The small smile that made someone\'s day
The apology that saved someone from the edge of a knife
They seem so small
To many people
They are not
Books
Stories
Words
Have revealed this to the girl over and over
You can do a million big things
They will never measure up to what
A million small things can do
If this girl has learned anything
Throughout her life it\'s this:
You cannot accomplish anything big
Without first accomplishing something small
By putting in the small work
It eventually adds up to a
Beautiful
Big
Product
But first it has to be
Small