She is the story seeker
the chronicle collector
who weaves them together
with tireless memory thread
to help the grand picture
become and make sense
The searcher who reads
the written but the unwritten as well
finder of the hidden experience
removing veil after veil
digger of the gems
that lie buried time and again
The memory worker
traveller in time
detector of spaces
and voices passed on
finder and reporter
of all things otherwise lost
The determined seer child
who knew that the emperor
never had any clothes
who knows he got there
through slavery and blows
through theft, plunder and lies
The sleuth unseduced
by the glamour of reams
of bound printed paper on shelves
for she knows just a fraction
of stories lie there
while the rest are thrown
into the well of oblivion
The emperor and his court
continue to delude
the people with deceit
and the tricks of his crooks
the ones who wrote and still write
most of the history books
She is the story seeker
the searcher who reads
the memory worker
the traveller in time
the sleuth unseduced
the determined seer child
I told you who she is
I leave you to guess who she is not
the great listener
who heeds the voices unheard
For this historian to succeed
all of us need to be her.
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