Director Of My Own Life Story

Director Of My Own Life Story

I'm the writer of my own life story

But making up the plot as I go along

I'm the only actor in my own life story

No feeding of lines, I'll improvise

Obsessions

Reflections

Questions, but not all the answers

A beginning, but no ending

Someone else gets to finish my masterpiece

I can say what I want to say

There'll be no censor's scissors snip

My use of silence

When words just aren't enough

Like a quiet riot

I'll be contradictory

But that's me, that's me

I won't put a palm tree in the background

When a hedge is my backdrop, honesty, honestly.

I'm the director of my own life story

I will cut out all the false takes not the mistakes.

I'm not in it for an Oscar, my moment in the spotlight

Just a cinema, with an audience of one.

Arctic blast of reality if my feet try to leave the floor

Sins thought of and sins done

I don't want to save the world

I just want to walk my talk

I swear it's the truth, the good and the bad

I swear it's the fool, the genius and the fraud

I'm the director of my own life story.

V Topp