PAD Chapbook Challenge Day 19

Today's prompt from Poetic Asides: Write a "protagonist" and/or "antagonist" poem. This was a pretty good prompt, but I struggled with it all day and late into the evening before coming up with something short and aphoristic:

Manuscript

You are always

the protagonist

of your own story.

The antagonist

is anyone who would keep

you from writing it.

Not until the last page

will you truly know

who's won.