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The Storyteller's Tale

from DRKMTR by DRKMTR

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lyrics

the storyteller’s tale

here - where stories reside
I am riddled
a cat’s fiddle
a heart thrown on the griddle
hideous middle ground
yawns
(no longer a safe place to straddle)
unravel the tales

as fishbones
(and whales)
impale meanderings
leanings, - wonderings
where words crying out to be spoken
are offered tokens of gratitude
as the latitude of the world
shifts
down
into the night

when the poem becomes reality
(and reality a poem)
when the ocean becomes a fallacy
according to the written words
of great scientists of high stature
it’s all captured
and noted
dissected

the story is a lie used to tell the truth
history is a truth that eventually becomes a lie

I am the storyteller
who forthwith shall
speak lies
create worlds
unfurl
as spider’s webs curl
around this false heart
where tiny stories reside
as whispers
or smoke rings
and half-hidden meanings
(not yet discovered and ushered out into the light)
the good fight
is not over my friend
the long fight
is still raging my friends
and battle lines are drawn
in time’s sands
that shimmer like raindrops
through grasping hands
and ampersands
(and ampersands)

when the grand old man
has died
how will we remember him?
cut pieces out to worship him?
tear heart and lung and limb of him?
a million photographs of him
but none will recall
and the history books will burn
an inferno
of wasted words
forgotten
forlorn -
foregone conclusion

but old wives’ tales
and nursery rhymes
superstitious whisperings
and stories ringing throughout time
outshine
outlive the old man
his cronies lost
as old crones count the cost
and recite
recall, retell
stories ushered in from the night
and spoken around fires
of burning books
as amber leaves rise up from the ashes
we mourn nothing
and sing
and weave
and dance the soul’s creation
temptation is celebrated
fecund stories narrated
until the dawn
shatters witch’s spells
and mythical creatures return once more to dwell
in the forests
of the storyteller’s mind

until the next time…

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from DRKMTR, released November 26, 2012

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