Sad God

The thing about a narrative
Is that it must be shared—
Not just told to someone else
But in some sense believed.

You have to agree on a story.
You have to agree on the parts,
On most of the parts at least,
To think, these belong in the story.

There’s no story not collective.
There’s no story in a language
That no one else can speak.
But every story’s lonely.