What makes a good storyteller, in your opinion? Are your favourite storytellers people you know or writers you admire?

He started to tell me a tale,

A tale he did not end.

I was upset,

I had been hanging on every word.

It’s only later I realized,

Why the end was left unsaid.

It was a narration of his unfinished life.

—Linus Fernandes.

The Daily Prompt.