Power Cord

try reading Nietzsche without getting bored

strangle yourself not with a will to power cord

an artistic critic undermining morality

try to start it all over, in totality

but despite the century of inhumanity

most of the world kept their sanity

at least in terms of Christ's subset

the core of it all was never upset

the atheism of the continent never took

the strange Western cousin saw the hook

even with its hypocritical personality

the Christian ethos informed the duality

the American atheist says otherwise

but the religion won, no compromise

the godless thought it would naturally die

but that ideal was mesospheric high

at the same time, the old world still had God

the state edified Him no matter how flawed

so the evangelist's narrative is broken

yet the new atheism hasn't awoken

like the old atheism of before

Jesus broke down that knob-less door

so Nietzsche remains rather obscure

and the supernatural still endures

Reviews

[Frieda P]

I don't think Friedrich is boring, but he will drive you to the brink of insanity, some of his views are way over the top, but then he'll turn around and make perfect sense....one of my favorite quotes belongs to him...

"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."

A powerful piece of poetry...

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thank you, Frieda. I have a fascination with him for sure, yet reading him is not easy. This poem is more about his legacy in light of the last century and this current one. I was primarily inspired by the introduction of newer version of "On The Genealogy of Morals". That author said he was an artistic critic more than a philosopher, and I think that description is true.

[Frieda P]

I'm not familiar with the newer version, but that sounds about right to me too...was my pleasure to read such an intelligent piece of work.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thank you for your review.