Sonnet #265

the stories we tell to our children

are the stories we tell to the future

the stories we tell to each other

are the stories we tell to the days olden

It sounds like perhaps I have this reversed

But, listen, when we speak of the past

to the children, we're telling the stories that last

about ourselves, about life's trajected, projected

And we mean them to carry down the line

When I tell stories to my peers, I say

I tell you what, man, I say do you find

that we are alike? Do you remember the way

the same way I remember the way, I'm tryin'

to be sure to take the shape of myself, have my say