Stories

Each person carries them.
Some are minute
light in their weight but bring solidity.

We each have a story
the long sentences of life to death.
Each life story ending in a period that siphons it
placing it at the close.

Some are fractured
we have bits and pieces
flashes of the plot
but these stories blur.

In our DNA we share stories
to our families
in ourselves
to the world.

We tell them
through dance
song
struggle.

We bear these stories in our breath
and exhale them.