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.