People are like books
Environment and experience are the pen,
our memories provide the paper,
and their blood, sweat, and tears constitute the ink.

People are like books,
and they are just begging,
and sometimes demanding,
for someone to read them.
Only the incredibly brave
or incredibly stupid
dare be illiterate
in this day-and-age

But then -
“fools rush in where angels fear to tread" - Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism, 1709