The lies we tell ourselves...

...before we go to sleep, when we wake up from a horrid dream. The lies we tell ourselves when we get up to shower to get us through another day, another week, another year. The lies we tell ourselves to get us through days of family, of friends, and when surrounded by strangers. The lies we tell ourselves in order to move forward, or backward, or sideways...or down. The lies we tell ourselves to go from one place to another place or no place at all, that get us to heaven or hell or some other purgatorian oblivion. The lies we tell ourselves to get through another holiday, another gathering, a dramatic or anti-climactic episode. The lies we tell ourselves in order to stay young...or grow old, to live or not. The lies we tell ourselves to feel severe or erratic, calm or spastic, to feel whole, empty, full, or splintered. The lies we tell ourselves in order to see and perceive, ignore or remain in ignorance. The lies we tell ourselves to feel loved or loathed, to feel adored or exiled, together or completely separate and alienated. -I'll never lie to you.