The Love Story – A Novel Romance

They say its not right to judge a book by its cover,
but if you aren't entranced from the outset will you ever really love her.
Sure its the chapters inside that capture your heart,
but you'll never make it that far, with no reason to start.

A book without a reader is just blank pages bound,
Its not until you look inside that the magic is found.
But no matter how pretty the jacket or tempting the blurb,
There is something bigger that makes the match superb.

A book chooses you as much as you a book,
It was across a crowded room, and yet you knew in just one look.
For years you had searched, seemingly to no avail,
Then just when you gave up, there was the perfect tale.

Was she big or small, her cover soft or hard
A Mills and Boon or a sonnet by the bard
Was she new or had her pages been turned by other guys?
Does it really even matter if she’s perfect in your eyes?

No matter how many times you’ll thumb through the same pages,
One book for the good times, the bad times and the rages,
The story is ever changing, each new page a surprise
Never on another book will you lay your eyes.

Though you used to like a genre, be it fact or fiction,
You can now say proudly, and with conviction
“Between these covers is the story of my life,
I don’t exist without it, without you, my wife.”

Written Dec 2008, what began as a silly couple of lines turned into an idea...