Found this due to alliean . It was so strikingly beautiful, I thought I would share. Poetry from "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko.

I will tell you something about stories,
[he said]
They aren't just for entertainment.
Don't be fooled
They are all we have, you see,
all we have to fight off illness and death.
You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.
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