Black Hole of Narcissism

I wrote this poem late last year. I’m updating my blog site and notifications and thought I would repost this here. It seems even more appropriate as the conditions seem to be advancing.

THE BLACK HOLE OF NARCISSISM

Einstein predicted them.

Eventually scientists saw them.

Their gravitational pull is so strong nothing escapes,

not even light.

X -rays emit when matter falls in.

The psyche mirrors the cosmos,

some believe.

Many predicted it

Eventually we all saw it.

An ego so needy and self-centered

that it pulls all attention into itself,

so powerfully that no light escapes,

only the screams of the betrayed.

The danger of circling a black hole

is getting too near the event horizon.

Those who fall in become

Non-Player Combatants or zombies.

Jungian psychologists say it is becoming

possessed by an archetype of evil.

Lord of the Rings called it becoming enslaved by Mordor.

The results are the same.

A weakening of will.

A destruction of agency.

A darkness shrouding the light.

A powerful sucking into nothingness.

When a psyche becomes a black hole

there is never enough.

It’s the Tibetan hell realm of the hungry ghosts.

Insatiability provides the gravity.

We are seeing that it is possible

for an entire galaxy of interests and needs

to orbit a black hole

and give up their light.

It is a mistake to call such a force

narcissism or “being an asshole.”

We are facing a black hole.

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