a blue notebook

Motionless on a bookshelf is a blue notebook,
its pages contain recorded memories of a novel in progress.
It rememebers the writer's ideas in a time when no one else would listen.

Locked in the bottom of a young girl's drawer is a blue notebook,
each line yearning to speak of the secrets kept that never should have been.
It tells of her life journey with silent stillness and slight bias.

Balancing near the edge of a desk is a blue notebook,
heavy with the text of a professor's latest lecture.
Its only desire is to teach its well-prepared insight to eager ears.

Flung on the floor is a blue notebook,
holding nothing but blue horizontal lines and pink vertical stripes
measured neatly on a stark white page.
Its empty leaves call out for attention to fill these spaces.
It imagines you thoughfully tapping your pen on the page,
Planning.....