Ah man.
Often I feel
I am a lie to myself,
and so am distorting
the beauty of sincerity
of my own self for others.
But at least now
I have a better idea of why this is-
Because I am not myself
whenever I have a thought
based on the premise/assumption
(of the ego)
that I am separate,
that power lies outside,
that what I need lies outside.
A thought where there is separation at the root
(i.e. a false thought,
an illusion...
the type of illusion that dreams are made of)