Not Just Stories

I've sailed across the ocean Seen Carthya march to war I've battled against Kronos Heard Oliver ask for more I was Receiver of Memory The Speaker for the Dead I've been Ender's Shadow Heard the Whisperer in my head I've found a world inside a wardrobe Borne the Burden all alone I've fallen into Tartarus Been orphaned without a home You may call them fantasy A fable, myth, or tale And though it ends eventually For a little time it's real