Aa Harvey

Once upon a time

Once upon a time

Be sit yourself upon this chair, I have a story to tell.

It is a tale I have told you before;

You have already heard it and you know it well.

But still I insist I shall tell it to you again,

So when I am gone and taken from this world,

You too shall sit someone down and begin to explain.

This story is truthfully a metaphor;

A tale to teach an image, upon which is born,

Inside a mind, not yours or mine;

But these are the words we were taught long before.

As age creeps up on us, the words may change,

But the fable and its meaning shall remain the same.

So even when we are each gone to our graves,

These images we portray shall be pictured again and again.

In winter nights when all around us is cold

And the candlelight our only protection.

We shall each of us be able to speak of this day

And the years that came before; we shall slumber with contemplation.

In dreams we shall picture the noises we have heard;

They were told to us many times, by him or by her

And as we curl up tightly in our beds at night,

We will find ourselves taken away to a new place with these words.

And when we arise in the morning light,

We will contemplate a new meaning we have gained through insight.

We shall realise the motivation to pass the torch to a new life

And the story will continue to evolve

And to grow with each passing hindsight.

With each time the story is told, it will be open to interpretation;

With each foretelling, with each piece of knowledge gained,

We are able to choose whether to tell it as fact or fiction.

The story is ours and we are all free,

To be the ones who decide if we will allow the stories ending to change.