As Time Allows

What would we be

As people

Without our stories?

I could listen to

Anyone

Tell me anything

Really, anything

I will fall asleep listening

I’ll trail after you like a

Second shadow

Don’t mind me

I’m just here to be

Here

And see all the things you see

So when we tell it back 

Later

I’ll remember

Because really

What are we

Without our stories?

Life would be so 

Hollow

We would learn

Nothing

From ourselves

From the world

And that is not living

I don’t know what that is

So we live with 

Our stories

And you light up 

When you tell them

So I will sit here 

Forever

Or as time allows

And listen