The Greatest Writer

 "The typewriter tap dances 

Right in the centre stage 

Where the protagonist meets

Their fate."

The writer pauses 

In between spaces, 

Pages to be changed 

Ink to be replaced

Often wondering about

The One Greatest Writer of them all.

The One whose commas continue life 

And periods end chapters good and bad. 

Tragedy, comedy, romance and drama 

Sometimes thrillers and dark desire 

They can write any genre without a care.

Are we all protagonists in life?

Most aren't in books. 

Some are just side characters existing. 

Driving others' stories.

What if the writer is one of them?

Never a protagonist in her own life? 

Could something be more nightmarish

Than that?

© Suranya



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