Peace On Earth (Library services)

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Product:	Library services
Date:	10/12/00 (15 review reads)
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Advantages: Peaceful, Excellent For Research & Entertainment

Disadvantages: No 'Surround-Sound'. .....

Pondering the subject of public libraries, the following poem I wrote as child springs to mind. Bear with me - it shall become relevant.


THE LIBARY
All is damp with the smell of pages
Stale has never been so sweet
It is cold, but you burn with desire
Your footsteps are rude against the stone floor

Row upon row of glorious invitation
Imagination oozing like treacle from in-between the covers
You feel inadequate in the presence of Shakespeare
You feel superior in the presence of a poor title

So much information, you wish that time would freeze
So that you could read until your brain bursts
You scan between the pages and marvel at how lost you become
As from behind you someone coughs and another goes shhh!

Only one or two from a collection so vast
You feel like a man digging to the planet core
Such a small dent in such a mighty task
But there is always next week, and the week after that



The point of me writing out that poem? Well firstly, it high-lights one thing - how I my self have viewed libraries. The above poem deals with many of the clichés about the libraries - the enforced silence and rows and rows of daunting books. Now while these thing, to a certain degree, do exist, so do the other attitudes me poem raised. Libraries, next to churches and temples, are to me the most sacred places on our earth. The whole feel of a library is special - the unity of silence, the air of learning. For me, there is no place like a library - a glorious collection of literature, free to be viewed by all. In a society that seems to favour ear-bursting surround-sound cinema halls and earth-shaking concerts, a trip to the library is a welcome escape from the chaos of every-day life. My last verse deals with the feelings that can arise from being in the presence of so many books. For me, this is the best part. If you enjoy reading, and look to occasionally escape t
he hectic life you lead, seek out your local library - disappointment will be a stranger.

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