As far as social conscience is concerned,
I was a late-starter—
global awareness was not my strongest point.
Economic repressions, depressions,
world crises passed me by—untouched.
I was a channel-changer, a dial-twister,
a button-pusher, a paper-burner—
an automatic news-rejecter.
"Who needs it?"
Enter: one book.Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
600 pages of truth,
100 pages of proof,
700 pages that changed my life, my world.
I still have that old edition—drink-rings on the cover,
ash-burns on page 421, a back broken from being thrown in
disgust against a wall—water-waffled pages bringing memories
of steamy-summer beach days spent wondering why this
little book wouldn't let me go. How could it?
It had a mighty work to do,
a world to change,
a kingdom to unfold.
