Readers

Funny mask and half hidden visage

As eyes go dancing page to page

Wrapped in blankets: quite an image

Few are left which read in this age

Where are they who yet persuade

to draw an audience far and broad

in words well woven and deftly laid?

An enthralling epic without pause

Gripping readers as sun sinks low

while each word reveals slowly now

an ending only the author knows

in a book we just cannot put down