Living Words

A living breathing story is just that,

it is carried on the breath,

born in the heart which resurrects the tale,

carried on living words to waiting ears

who share the experience.

Stories, like people, unfold,

this is a most important point, because,

although it has been,

it cannot be mechanised,

stories do not belong to studios,

under copyright, to be sold in plastic boxes

and endlessly re-prayed.

They are the property

of an individual human heart,

each telling is never the same,

it is exactly like a human being,

healing, self-renewing.

Nikolai Rozhonova