Reading is the secret of life

Reading is like the mind of the gods,
seeing beyond the page.

Reading is about understanding that which
cannot be understood -
which the words merely hint at.

I don’t read slowly and
I have long ago left reading fast -
to those who will continuously misunderstand
everything around them.

I read now the way the dead read.
I read with the soles of my feet.
I read with my beard.
I read with the secret ventricles of my heart.

I read with all my sufferings, joys,
intuitions, all my love,
all the beatings I have endured.

I read with all the magic
that sweeps through the cracks in the air.

I read -
to extract the soul of the conception.

Another adaptation from Ben Okri’s 2016 Don Quixote and the ambiguity of reading - and it's a touch autobiographical too.

Dream intentionally - while you’re awake.

(A little reminder too - if you click on the ‘view in browser’ link at the top of my email you’ll be magically transported to my ghost site - the text is the same AND you’ll see this week’s featured Unsplash photographic artist.)