Do you have an unpublished ‘treasure’ buried in the graveyard of your bottom drawer? By Roy Lester Pond

A book written and buried is like a treasure in an ancient Egyptian tomb, hidden forever.

No writer deliberately writes a book to bury in the graveyard of the bottom drawer. A writer composes words on a page, just as a composer writes notations on a music sheet, for it to be brought to life through the instrumentation of another’s sensibility. Who can truly write a book without the ghost of a hope that it will ever be experienced? It would be on a par with decorating an ancient Egyptian tomb. Its book cover (should it ever have one) would be like a sealed and buried entrance. Its pages would be like walls filled with words and drawn scenes, condemned to remain in utter darkness forever, never to come under the gaze of a living eye. Isn’t there always the lingering hope of an afterlife? A book written for the graveyard of the bottom drawer is truly a Book of the Dead.

Author Roy Lester Pond believes in an afterlife for books. Open one on Amazon Kindle or paperback.