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The Superego

Michael Marchese

By Michael Brandon MarchesePublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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My conscious persona

No longer exudes

Fragmentation of self

There is merely the one

And the love that eludes him

Eschewing his genius

His manic depression

His mind-bending realms

Of post-mortem reflection

For how could he teach them

His methods of madness

His ubermensch dead to the world

Phantom sadness

What he comes to know

Is no longer aware

Of the scent of her fear

There is only his cognizance

Naked and bearing

The weight of their hunger

The oceans of thirst

The suffering children

Enslaved upon birth

And for all of their innocence

He will endure

The injustice of time

As he rots to the core

Of his inner-most thoughts

In a prison of prose

His youth in revolt

Though trapped in decay

Like a withering rose

From the ashes of ego

Destruction of id

To reveal the creations

Of muses he hid

And for lost souls to serve

And his goddess divine

He embodies the light

Formlessly redefines

The objective of life

Subject to debate

But realizing the truth

Is by his hand made free

To determine the fate

Of his own destiny

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