As long as love's around
we'll tell the tale again and again
until it takes ahold of trained tongues
to tell itself,
unraveling narrative tentatively,
foretelling a future to fit
snug as skin around the
shoulders of the story so far.
Raconteur soothsayer sewing myth
into history stitch by stitch,
subtle seam to hide the horrors,
hollow hem of humanising lullabies,
Homeric heroics hailed
in the lilting voice of victors,
the winners who write wonders
wreathed with war crimes.
©sweepingly
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