Damn you, Baader Meinhof phenomenon! Cognitive dissonance has now gripped my soul and holds me down. My face is red and hot, fiery with unmet desire. I saw the signs once and see them all the time now. My brain assumed, “there is a reason you see all this and that.”

A message from up above.

Or down below.

Or all around.

And now you tell me it’s a psychological term, a neurological connection that was formed. It only made me see what I wanted to see.

Let me!

Let me believe what I want to believe.

Do not flutter my heart with needless facts. I want desire, longing and rapture. Nothing but earnest fervor. In this world gripped by insecurity, some cling to science, others to faith and most egregious of all? Some cling to fear.

Which do I choose to tranquilize my heart?

In a past life, perhaps erudition,

Yet broken hearts speak and feel differently

I choose faith, my dear.

– A. Garcia