Confronting And Embracing The Dark Stranger Within Poem by DM W
Confronting And Embracing The Dark Stranger Within
Friedrich Nietzsche once warned us
Not to battle with our own demons
Or monsters in case we become one ourselves.
For he reminded us that when we gaze
Into the abyss; the abyss gazes into us.
We will never free ourselves from its grip.
In many ways, Nietzsche was the world's first
Psychoanalyst, some years before Freud.
In order to know ourselves fully
We must venture deep into our own souls.
But we must courageously confront,
The dark stranger and potential foe within;
Without being consumed by fear or hate,
Sometime we catch a fleeting glimpse
Ofthis shadow selfin the familiar face
That we constantly observe in the mirror:
Eventually we must embrace him or her:
In a difficult marriage of light and darkness.
There's good and bad in everyone how a person deals with it speaks volumes about said person and their dark id. The American military years ago explored the possibility of thought activated weapons for pilots to give them a small time edge in combat but scrapped the idea for when in formation a pilot might think some ill-will to another pilot and activate a weapon against his wingman. Great poem Dominic and 10++. Many thanks and take care.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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8/28/2025 7:03:33 AM # 1.0.0
Thanks Shaun...I forgot to mention Carl Jung who came up with the notion of the Shadow similar to Freud's concept of the Id but with more spiritual resonances..might use it to right an article on Star Wars and the Dark Side of The Force. However, I think that Niezsche got there first in terms of identifying the darker aspects of human nature.