The Hydras within us all

Criminality doesn’t come from elsewhere. It is born here.

Anthi Psomiadou
Queen’s Children

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Photo by Marco Chilese on Unsplash

This force that pushed you
to rape and kill,
has all its roots
inside your past’s field.
Haven’t tried or not
to clear your lake’s mud,
you never found
the real core of that.
The Hydra lies
inside your subconscious.
Its multiple heads
make you unconscious.
Those women weren’t
your abusive mother.
You are confused
by your projections’ cover.
They caught you after
many years,
in which your action
didn’t allay your fears.
You thought those murders
would have been
redemption through the revenge-field.
You were a victim
that stayed attached to that;
Instead of taking responsibility,
you turned yourself into a killing machine.
You thought this proved that you dare,
but the power you felt vanished into thin air.
The prison’s cage
can make your heart even darker,
but it can also be
your enlightenment’s partner.
Will you dig in to see the truth?
To feel your pain’s covered-up root?
To cry and mourn for you and all?
To forgive, to be unchained?
To discover that your childhood’s context
you misinterpret?
To be transformed, to go beyond?
What’s going to happen then?
The choice is yours.

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Anthi Psomiadou
Queen’s Children

Writing, Life Coaching, Criminology, and more. But I simply do these, I am not these. I just am. Born and living in Greece (in both Ancient and modern…)