Predestined

I.
Someone has written my lines
Has scripted all of my failures
And mapped out all my shame.
Somehow, someone dangles all
The strings of my life,
Has numbered my days,
Named my weaknesses,
Chosen my last breath,
Picked my enemies,
Shared my winnings.
Someone has read my face
Has put me
In exactly the right place.
Someone, somehow is rewarded
Because of me.
But that someone doesn’t know me.
II.
Some unnamed one
Could trample me, control me,
Own me as a slave or even
Torture me to death.
As long as I know myself
And do not define myself
by these constraints
Then I am free!