everyone has a story

the stories need to be told

everyone has a story,

and each of us needs to tell it,

each of us needs for it to be heard,

we can create a persona for the world

that hides the battles we fight every day

to be, to do,

to hold to the best

while the worst 

works to pull us down,

that best in the other

calls me and I find a way

to hold against the emptiness

that passing time can visit upon our stories,

I pull together loose groups

with enough sharing of time, place, and calling,

so that stories can be told, heard, shared,

each has a story,

we have a story,

the stories need to be told,

the stories needs to be heard,

each “I” needs to be,

the “we” needs to be,

and to grow in the  telling.

by Henry H. Walker

March 3, ‘19