The story of your life is writ in chapters
some cover many years, some just a scene.
With highs and lows and miseries and raptures
from birth to death and everywhere between.
And friends and family are all just actors
who have their time on stage to strut and preen
their interraction's one of many factors
that mean the future cannot be foreseen.
And anyway the audience wouldn't like it,
to know the end before the story's told.
It's paid the price so now you must delight it,
a daily dose of anguish must unfold.
And though it takes the hand of fate to write it
no matter how the wayward ball is bowled
each crisis has its arc and you can't fight it
from fumbled loose to arrow in the gold.