QuickWriting-What role does literature play in your life?

In my everyday life I try to be a better person, especially to be a learned person. Literature helps me a lot and guides me so that I learn morality and perhaps have to be smarter. I usually can't understand what literature tells us. However, if I continue to read and try to understand what it is trying to say eventually get the real meaning. When I am reading literature, my heart feels really peaceful and quiet. It always lightens my way to life. Even though some literature is sometimes boring and not well written, other pieces of literature are often deep and beautiful. Some of them are a kind of art that uses words and not paint. With literature I can discover how different people think and feel and believe. I can also find that people in different parts of world usually have similar wishes and dreams as I do. Literature helps me see that the world and the people in it are literature very similar, despite surface differences.

Old man

Silently, I came into the room.
For sure he didn't see me.
Looking at his unhappy, old face and empty eyes
Staring through folds of aging skin
I see his first love
Or maybe his wife who left him
For a younger man
He sits
Clutching his soft jacket
to keep out the cold he really feels within
Bought, maybe by her
in a slightly wealthier time
when each was happy and the son
shone brightly on their lives
Love can make a person die inside
and even cause the flesh to wither
like an old flower
Silently, I leave him,
alone with his lonely thoughts.