Story

What's your Story

today, as you stir

What'll make you blur
the bad tidings
Face the music
of another day?

Better make your tale

strong and true

Lord of your manor, are you

or the hapless victim

of a crime

Playing a bit role

An Extra

in your own life?

Whatever it is

sure your story has layers untold

And plays out in technicolor

(well, at least in silver and gold)

Oh wait. I forgot. Today,

you got up on the wrong side

and found no story

that kicked in

Fear crawled up your skin

Without that soothing balm

without that justification

How will you ever

take any action?

With nothing at all in your damn head

you climb down the stairs

You look at others in despair

You find no real people

just ghosts with stories

with their angst and their glories

Just walking around, doing this and that

But when you talk to them

it comes out pat

My life. My relationship.

My money. My bad hip.

So interesting, so tiresome

for sure there's no outcome

For a person without a story

is a story without a person