Let Us Knit Together A Story Poem by Mark Heathcote

Let us knit together a story of beginnings not ends
It's too easy these days to unravel and stay friends
Or sprinkle a bruised sweated purple sage
Let us not fight in fitful-outrage scattering thyme
And salt on a marinated underbelly barbecued
Let us not denigrate talk-ill, bad of each other.

Or take to the stage to win over an audience
Who isn't fit paying a backseat entrance fee?
Let us knit together a story of happy-ever-after
Without listening to the rats in a sordid basement
Or under those leaking rotten rafters
Feeding on our leftover words, words like whatever.

Let us not turn defensive in order to stay in control
Dance to the latest paparazzi-tune; we're not puppets
On a thrown sent to the gallows, executed by stones
Let us write our own, destinies; throw down any cutlasses
This isn't a duel where one or the other remains loveless
Let us knit a story that begins, but darling never ends.