“Become a Book You’d Want to Read” by Morghan Fuller

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I started going through life searching for stories years ago
I can’t go through the drive thru without wondering
When the girl handing me my fries had her all from grace,
Can’t go to a yard sale without picturing the miles every shoe has walked,
Or pick up an unopened toy without wondering whose Christmas present wasn’t good enough.

We often get trapped in our own minds,
And become bored with the novel our life creates.
We try to change the plot, and switch out the characters,
Find ourselves struggling between being the protagonist or antagonist.
We spend forever trying to make our story something we would want to read.

But instead of seeing yourself as an author,
Let the world around you be your library.
Stop obsessing over your happy ending,
And spend time trying to analyze your lover’s first chapter.
A good writer always spends too much time reading.

When you learn to judge no person’s cover,
And realize that too many people have allowed
Others to carelessly mark all over their pages,
You will learn what makes a story good is finding beauty in brokenness.

Become a careful reader, take note of every ending that made you cry,
Of every scene you couldn’t stop playing in your mind.
Learn to read the people and places around you,
And you will learn how to become the book you’ve always wanted to read.

-Morghan Fuller

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