My Lie
There is a great and terrible feeling behind manipulating people.
The feeling of power sinks into your skin,
as you make up a story on the spot,
and watch as it then becomes part of their reality.
By lying I can make my make-believe other people’s reality.
If I cannot live in the world I so yearn for
then at least they can live there for me
and respond to me as if my world was real.