A story is what a mind wants
Story and it's telling keeps it hedged
Story of literature hence and thus came about.

Through a story
The girl child and the boy child knew
The Princess and the Prince
The gardens and the swings
The demons and the magicians.

Through a story
The maiden and the handsome knew
The love and the lovers nest
The kiss in the sleepless nights 
The joy and the pain Of love.

Through a story the past looks in to
The future
Wants a future and hence desires as it wants it to be,
The storytelling like a young river in spate
Generates flames in the mind of tellers and
Listeners,
The flames nourishes the child in every being, be
it me, you, the leaves or the trees.