Real Life

One letter at a time.
One word at a time.
One sentence at a time.
One paragraph at a time.
One page at a time.

What letter do I start with?
What words will they make?
What will the sentence say?
Where will the paragraph take me?
What happens at the end of the page?

The letter might make me wince.
The words might make me curse.
The sentence might make me squirm.
The paragraph might make me pull out my hair.
The page might only make it worse.

But the letter is the beginning,
and the words link like chains.
The sentence tells a story,
the paragraph keeps on showing it
The page, then, makes me happy.
Imperfect as it is, it's mine.
Then I write the next letter,
One at a time.