It has a certain effect: not quite understanding
from where each of your reactions is born.
And you’re living, never knowing
in your depths, what you are
what you are.
The monsters within us,
that live inside every man
hidden in the subconscious
are an atavistic1 call.
The monsters within us,
that wander in every mind
are our darkest instincts
and inevitably
we must come to terms with them.
The monsters within us,
silent and suggestive,
are the selfishness gene
that without ceremony
dominates and conquers.
The monsters within us
push us towards the violence
that almost by symbiosis2
has glued itself
to our existence.
Our civil lives,
our idea of justice and equality,
our social cohesion
is threatened
by the monsters that are our essence.
The monsters within us
The monsters within us
The monsters within us
make us languish
in front of that thing
that we shamelessly
call love.
The monsters within us
are insatiable and foreboding;
they are power at all costs,
but also those who hate it
only out of envy.
The monsters within us
inspire the great dream
of a stern and just God
with the mythical necessity
for Allah and for Jesus Christ.
The monsters within us
instill twisted ideas
and a taste for the sadistic and morbid
before images of death.
Our conscious lives,
our faith in what is right and beautiful
is an apparent balance
that’s threatened
by the monsters that we have in our
brains.
The monsters within us
are growing all over the world.
The monsters within us
are devastating us.
The monsters within us,
that live in every mind,
that are born in every land,
inevitably
lead us to war.
1. characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral2. Biology: Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.