How Are You Dealing With Your Demons? Poem by Ali Rahimi

Who are your demons?
Supernatural beings, unclean spirits, fallen angels,
Winged bulls coming from the nether world,
Mental illnesses, catalepsy, headache, epilepsy and nightmares,
Demons of blindness, Shabriri,
Who rested on exposed water at night,
And blinded the ones who drank it,
The bastard spirits, Liliths, owls,
Sent to herd or swine by divine hands,
Catholic exorcists heal afflicted souls,
Overwhelmed, seized victims,
How are you dealing with your demons?
Stand not in the way of an ox when coming from the pasture,
For Satan dances between his horns,
Demons can be conjured and controlled, or
Ogre-like creature with horns,
What demons possesses you?
Against your spiritual entity,
I fell amongst the demons,
You climbed out of demons,
You behave like demons,
I am fighting the demons,
How are you dealing with your demons?
Zoroastrianism’s Spenta Mainyu set against Angra Mainyu,
Progressive mentality against destructive mentality,
Under the one God Ahura Mazda, the illuminating wisdom,
The Lord struck down all the firstborns in Egypt,
The unclean demons led astray the children of the sons of Noah,
Psychological, political, mystical demons,
Deal with your demons,
And you can have your life,
Shortcomings, personality issues, multiple personality disorder,
Associative identity disorder, lack of enthusiasm, sloth,
Addiction, alcoholism, gambling, lust, greed for power,
Mans’ Achilles heels,
I have no demons, I am in control,
How are dealing with your demons?
Ghost, bad ghosts, demons bring him to destruction,
He blames demons, evil spirits,
Beware the demon,
But demons keep us alive, we flight, we fight,
Necessary evil, good souls, imaginary enemies,
We are our dreams, we are our nightmares,
Inner demons, inner demons,
He kills his father, rapes his mother,
He rapes a goat behind the haystack,
Suppressed childhood desires, pent up emotions,
Cognitive analysis of what he lacks,
You shake hand with your demons,
You befriend them, you embrace them,
You breed, feed and nurture them,
You don’t challenge them, you don’t baffle them,
Deal with them, deal with them, cope with them,
Live with your demons,
Striving for perfection can be the demon,
Striving for unconditional love, perfect beauty,
Striving for exactness and discipline can be the demon,
Extremes, extremes, extremes,
How are you dealing with your demons?
Demonization of rivals,
Debunk the myth of possession by evil spirits,
And that possessed people are not actually evil,
Rather, they are doing battle with the forces of evil,
Human wrongdoing and transgression,
The wickedness of humankind on earth,
Sin originates when angels descend from heaven and fornicate women,
Birthing giants as tall as 300 cubits.
Forbidden knowledge,
Beautification techniques, alchemy, astrology,
Deal with your demons, the inner demons,
The solution is in my hands:
Self-possession, self-restraint, self-command, self-leadership,
How are you dealing with your demons? ...