[ WP ] You possess an ability to turn off one or more of your senses to heighten the others . Today is the day you make a mistake .

Let me get this out of the way: If you have n't figured it out yet, humans have more than five senses. Now, I'm not here to list them all to you. That's a job for the neuroscientists. I *can* tell you that no matter how much you wax philosophical, love is not one of them. 
 
 The heat of the sun is not the warmth you felt in their smile. The vibrations of a guitar is not your wavelength as it matched theirs. The pull you feel to the core of the world is not what made them seem like yours. You regaining your footing is not the balance you felt in them. The pain in your heart was nothing compared to their final moments. 
 
 It does n't matter. None of it does. It all distracts you from what's really there. I started with the trivial five... 
 
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 *Cogito ergo sum, * I was reminded. The one incontrovertible truth I could be sure of in a world of lies. A moment later, I was n't. 
 
 After an unknowable length of time, the nothing became everything. 
 
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 *My first prompt in months. A bit on the edgy side, but it was fun to write. *
