prevaricate

the biggest lie
we tell ourselves
is that the lies
we tell ourselves
hurt no one
but ourselves
when truthfully
we prevaricate
perilously
for we have
so oft repeated
our own
mendacious myths
that now they are
our truth
and so become
the world's truth
seen warped and wavy
through our lens
foggy with the
cataracts of self-doubt
and self-hate
and, rarer, self-love
our light
reflected in a funhouse mirror
and myopically focused
pinpointed through a prism
that refracts
a distracting rainbow
of revisionism
so that we
and the world
miss the larger picture
that would show
the dissonance
of our distortions
and wreck the
solid certainty
we repeat
I & I & I