It Is Time

‘It is time to write your story,’ they say to me.
‘So many need to hear it for themselves.
They need to hear about all that has happened
To you, from the time you were an infant to the time
Of now, when you have so much desire to come Home.
Will you not share your story with others?’
‘I have shared it,’ I tell them.
‘With every poem I write, with every tale I tell,
With every song I sing, I have shared my story.’
‘Keep sharing it,’ they urge me.
‘I can’t. I have tried sharing it for far too long.
It is time for my story to have an ending,
And then it will be time, at last, for others
To pick up the threads.’