Sacred Contracts XXXI: Of Monsters

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.      
And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."  ~ Nietzsche    
     
I’ve slipped over remains  
of monstrous battles      
in both deed and character    
 -- others as well as my own      
if I'm to be completely honest    
     
Galactic light-being’s contracted    
for various reasons to jackhammer      
the tarred asphalt of stagnancy      
free from its human gravity  
     
Thus we transcend complacency    
merge into a vibrational form      
depart this recycled plateau      
of reflected pattern    
     
(Re)Turning to Remembrance      
that which we’ve learned      
how we’ve come to know it      
to have survived this long    
balancing the shard of a minute      
     
The trajectory of our heart      
aims for simple acceptance    
that painful path to peace    
altering misconceptions      
of Universal cruelties    
into portals of opportunity      
     
As I calculate the impossibility      
of ascension without “(fr)enemies”    
(our greatest and oft’ final teachers)    
I can hear my father’s steady voice      
moving diagonally with the rook      
guarding the queen of a board:    
     
Gaze deep into that abyss, daughter      
enough to recognize each monster    
without fear or sword for battle -    
winning the war isn't a difficult task    
     
If they attempt to return the gaze    
hold up the shield of your mirror instead        
~