Tell Me a Story

     Now
Give me war I care not for peace
I want the dark of night and a victim’s grief
Show me anguish and suffering and hate
Tell me a story to which I cannot relate
     Tell me
Overshadow my suffering with the protagonist’s lies
Of terror and worry and pain when one dies
I want to see a life so much worse than my own
Try to make mine hollow and take away my ‘alone’
     A story
Moanings and cursings and gore and blood
Please, just for once, let emotion to flood
I want it to rain and fill the streets with tears
Take me from these moments, months, wasted years
     I should
Try and show me something I don’t already know
Impress me and strike me and give me a show
I put to each storyteller a task:
I want to cry and to yell and to never, never laugh
     Not hear
 
Tell Me a Story
9.10.2001