music and books

Slip headphones over your ears Hit play and wait It washes over you like water Shuts out the noise Takes you to a different place Where the music takes on colour And everything else disappears as your eyes slide shut You hum along as it soothes you Carrying all your worries away Thoughts are nonexistent Just the sounds that fill your head You sit in your corner Oblivious to the world Not seeing the people passing by Not hearing anything else Just listening to the sounds running through your head You hum once more As you open the worn cover Flip a page and prop it up on your knees Still humming as your eyes fly across the page Absorbing everything you see Images dance through your head As you imagine every character and every scene And only you will know what they look like The little habits they have And all of a sudden it comes to an end The music stops The story is at its end You smile as you get up The story still fresh in your head And the music still playing in your ears