We confuse the Dark Feminine or the Dark Mother with the shadow side of the Mother archetype because culturally we deny that there is a shadow side to it.
The moment you see something with your own eyes and feel injustice with all your senses, you cross an inner border, you know you can’t go back from there.
We owe it to our elders to make them feel needed and respected in their golden years. Plus, we owe them a country that looks out for their basic needs.
The war is over or is it? Do I know you as a dirty innocent thing yet? A discarded soft child forgotten by your god? A picture frame made of wilted flowers?
We’ve become boxers who bite opponents. We’ve become women who fail to report rape. We’ve become men who piss themselves. This is our common tale of woe.