tracing stories by nene mawuhi

tracing stories

 

where stories

begin?

not at birth,

not at the discovery of your path

carved for you

carved by you

 

beginnings go far far back as time

when light was called forth from darkness

and land surfaced on the waters, becoming everything else

the world conceived and formed in a week plus rest

and the telling of

the Big Bang billions of years back

stories

 

and (hi)story

the genesis of our world, our story set

characters make entrances and exits

playing roles, neglecting parts

your entrance brings you here

(and our entrances converge at this time)

to play, to create, to be - before you exit

 

the beginning of your story 

like the beginning

of your grandparent's, back back back

to their forbears' forbears

 

the beginning of your story!

                                            n.m.