A/N: Written for the 100_poems challenge on livejournal, poem 16/100 and day 15. (still out of order).
Character Poems: the Chosen through Time
6. Kido Jyou
He went by the book.
Or he wanted to anyway,
but books weren't fullproof
and that was a cold and hard fact
Unlike the softer pages
that could turn and fold
beneath his fingers
and tear when he'd had his feel –
But then again, he wasn't
a defiler of the books
but rather the one that followed
the words he understood
But books have empty spaces,
gaps between the lines
And it was only after his glasses
fell off from a face thinned
just a little
with his new life
That he could see the fine print underneath
and be a true follower
of his book.