Dictionary Demise

         
I see the letters have now peeled off          
Of the tabs of tarnished pages aged;          
Mother’s old college textbook          
“The American Heritage Dictionary”          
         
This second edition before remission          
Served Mother words for school,          
But in the youngest years of my commission          
It was my first poetic tool.          
         
Long before the interwebs          
Crept into my home,  
These pages my fingers did glide          
But now the glyphs are gone.          
         
Strangely I don’t have much to say,        
Left speechless at this omen...  
Words lost in time I couldn’t find;          
Once again I rest in Mother’s home of poems.