Are we the Authors of our Lives, or its Editors?

If we are the questions, where should we place the commas?
If we are the answers, are our stories cited, complete with footnotes and quote marks?
Do our lives have set margins or page breaks?

Are our adventures, just paragraphs and chapters rather than completely fleshed-out books of Life?

Who draws the frontispiece, or writes the dedication and prologue, who the summary, index, or the end-notes?

Do we choose our own table of contents and outline? Is our ending written, a foregone conclusion of someone else’s plot, or is the Finis unexpected, upended alteration from the draft?

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 14 June 2019