Which story will it be?

After dinner has always been storytime.

  Sunlight sinking,

   matching weary eyelids 

Gather together,

 knowing siblings,

  and elders will need a hand  to bed.

Some words are recalled,

 comfortable,

but now,

  and maybe once again,

there might be a tale a touch new.

Both might share a song,

 smiling at each other.

 laughing at a tune so true.

While we wait, 

 letting the embers grow dim,

  decide on a story,

    one of young grown old,

or perhaps a step back.

Reviews

[Corset]

I've read bedtime stories but can not remember back to a time when I listened to one.

[Jon Roggie]

The hardest part is keeping the teller awake!

[Lorry]

Memories of infinite adventures and possibilities of story time blows tv out the water for the eager audience I once was. Relishing tales of a secret world I wasn't in during the time it played out, but brought back to life in living colour of our imaginations.
I always liked the embellishments on each re-telling. Most likely embellished, but not to this eager viewer, whose boundless optimism just accepted it into the narration as a now remembered gem, long forgotten.
Now I am remembering times when tv's had an off switch... Sigh 😀

[Jon Roggie]

Family went camping before the days of wireless. You might get some radio for a late-night show, but nothing was automatic.
Still, an old mystery playing on the boat, during the middle of a summer night?