All Good Books Decay

Verse 1

In everyone's mind

A story is written

From the day we are born

With sound, smell and vision

Unlike a book

No presuppositions

Verse 2

Every day is the turn of a page

Some filled with laughter

Some filled with rage

Gathering wisdom

Getting better with age

Verse 3

All good books

Will one day decay

Even great classics

Have bindings that fray

Snow-white pages

Fading to grey

Verse 4

Once past their prime

Our minds will forget

With the passing of time

Less recollect

Life once sublime

Becomes derelict