Vision Poem, by Gary Edward Geraci, at My poetic side

“But now that you say ‘We see’ your sin remains.” John 9:41

Certain blindness exuded by scholar and teacher,

Is ‘the curtain’ pertaining to the dominant philosophy.

If we’d attended a lesson of Professor “F” Nietzsche,

The lecture might lack in hope, teach a morality

Of the master-slave, and scorn the Christian preacher.

A crisis nought for the well formed in Reality;

Chaos for the ill-informed who loudly proclaims liberty,

God is dead, and the will, well, is the will to power.

There are those proposing that the overman is the Saint.

Collared educators tracing a two thousand year tenure,

Draw a lover; a tender, kind man of manner quaint;

Strong in resolve, full of courage; a sure preserver

Of the peace and protector of the now fallen, faint

Man, who pitied a horse and then flew off his rocker.

Gary Edward Geraci

Author: Gary Edward Geraci ( Offline)
Published: May 13th, 2023 09:15
Comment from author about the poem: A sonnet. Professor Friedrich Nietzsche (1884-1900) taught many of his students the will to power and to revere the ubermensch (overman). He was adamant regarding the weaknesses of religion and especially of Christianity, and wrote a novel about the consequences of God’s death. Bishop Robert Barron in “Understanding The Present Moment #2 (Friedrich Nietzsche)” points out that Nietzsche is one of four philosophers most responsible for the modern philosophical errors of our times. In my poem “Vision”, I give him a failing grade of “F” for all the students who rejected his insane and arrogant ideology yet, at the same time, had to endure his mad rants. Professor Peter Kreeft, in his brilliant and fair “Socrates Children” book series writes that Nietzsche taught that Christian values and virtues were weak and pathetic and had no foundation in a purely materialistic philosophy. Kreeft points out, if there is one concrete, historical example of the unforgivable sin of the rejection of the Holy Spirit, then Nietzsche‘s ideology and firm atheism exemplifies it. Kreeft concludes that Nietzsche‘s demise occurred after suffering a blow to his own conscience formed by this lifelong ideology. Already poor in health, Nietzsche witnessed a man beating his horse and he at once felt pity, one of the weak feelings he had disavowed and claimed to be dead or nonexistent. The mental crisis that followed resulted in his final years of life being spent in an insane asylum. Thus, the idiom in my poem “…flew off his rocker.”
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