Liar Liar.

Your make-believe hands
Are cold around my neck 
And when my voice reaches to sing, or to speak
This is when you tighten your make-believe grip
Reducing me to a pip
….squeak
You are the cat
And I have been the mouse
You try and trap me
To gain control over this house 
I want her to stand tall
You want her to play small
But she is more than that
She is so much more than what you see
She is a home of peace
Trying to raise a family of possibilities
The likes of which, you could never seize
Though you try
And try again
Raising your faceless dread
As you sit at my table
Shaking your doubtful head
While shortening the leg
To rock me unstable
Until my chest caves in 
And shoulders fall
While you laugh and raise your glass tall
"A toast to all!"
A toast to my demise
But NO more…
You see my dear guest,
Over time I have gotten to know you
Even welcomed you here to rest
For I now understand why you have come to my temple
And why I have let you exist…
You do not wish
To strangle me
But rather, to grow me
Though your ways indeed, I find unsavoury
They have also come to show me
The illusion of your chains
So that I may understand the meaning of what it is to be free
And become more of what there is to be…
For without questioning
There is no deeper discovery
And so here you question me 
Albeit, uncomfortably
But honestly
What do I see?
What do I believe?
Well, my make-believe guest
Now I see you 
Now I don’t
For once I believed you
But now I won’t
Because the more I cease to resist you
The more you cease to exist to
Be.
Here.
Now I see, 
How you’ve been misunderstood
How you were merely
Showing me the wood 
For the trees
And all these clouds
That so malleably 
Conceal the warmth of a constant and shining sun
Depending on the state of my mind's perception
...Now
Now I understand this illusion
That hides the sweet truth
Within your acronym:
Face
and
Embrace
to
Alleviate 
and 
Rise
Rise, transcend and aspire
To the conscious mind and heart that soars higher
From the beautiful truth in the knowledge
That fear is a fucking liar.