How We Tell Our Stories

1. It's the way we tell our stories that tends to set our fate
2. We speak of heroes and villains
3. We speak of winners and losers
4. How we tell the story forms the mask we will wear
5. The word on our lips
6. The breath exhaled
7. The air taken in
8. All part of the mysterious stew
9. It's the way we tell our story, the length of each line - longer than the palmist's reckoning
10. We speak of our role, but
11. We are always the hero of our own saga
12. We speak of winning and losing,
13. But each new breath is a victory
14. How we decorate the hours,
15. How we honor the day,
16. How we dream the night
17. How we limn the path determines where we go
18. It's how we tell our stories that tends to set our fate