Who Is Your Audience?

Each writer and each poet knows An audience awaits And every day it grows and grows And that it celebrates... For all that's taught and all that's pleased, For all the time it took, To help the greatest and the least To sit and read each book... And even if a single page, That took some time to share, With wisdom till its final stage, Because someone took care... It's only then that readers find A treasure trove within, As if to reach and bless Mankind, If pure and without sin... Great films are based on books that sell And that's the Gospel Truth, Yet comics have their fans as well, The Big Bang Theory's proof. In submarines, when time allows, Both captain and the crew Are known to rest and then to browse Great novels old and new... Consider readers young and old, On this Earth and in space, For astronauts, we're also told, Like tales they can embrace... A billion readers every day Were taught to read and write By parents who first showed the way To make their futures bright! Denis Martindale March 2017.