Cognitive Dissonance

My space heater rumbles

Like a part is loose

Everything inside me

Stumbles

In the first place

Every place is hollow

I promised not to say broken

So my fingers hover

Over keys and my heart argues

With my mind

I can’t write

I can’t love

I am nothing

I am everything and everyone

I can do it

All

And every choice screams in the echoes of our hearts

We betray

We honor

We help

We harm

How many of our foolish steps are

Steps we took to save something

That ended up

A pirouette

Into a place where our deepest insecurities

Slide and melt us

Deeper

Into

An illicit

One.