Life Story

to start it’s

like reading a book,

cover to cover

preface to epilogue,

at some place between a

fragile newborn wail

and the hollow farewell

of an ancient’s final breath,

lies a unique story,

in which we are heroes

or heroines,

denied a glimpse of the

evolving plot,

who we’ll meet,

leave, like, love,

fight, cheat or fuck,

whether we’re cast in a

short story or epic saga

there will be times we are

impatient to turn the page,

and others when we

cannot bear to look,

characters will come and go,

who may change the plot

or merely colour-in blanks,

there will be precipices

to avoid, and forks in the road

to take or choose not,

it’s said, that life

is an open book and

one thing is certain

to surprise,

the end

Published by grahamrsherwood