Now I can hardly contemplate the light of day from staring into the abyss for so long. How can I ever forgive you? Cynic-master, who taught me how to think for myself who taught me how to speak with such lucid contempt Now I can never trust the government Now I can never have faith in anyone's heavanly aspirations, The sun having long set on any protests of idealism.
And yet I still find you remarkable Nietzsche You never fail to make me laugh at the times when I need it the most. You're the rebel friend who I can never introduce to my parents. Yours is the poster which should adorn every angry teenagers' wall With quotes highlighting The Will to Power and violent determination. A hopeful voice in a godless world. I'm reminded of you in the girl that speaks or stealing every crucifix in her former convent school after her friend was expelled. I'm reminded of you with every protester who throws a Molotov cocktail at armed police I'm reminded of you in eery artist who does'nt follow formality in every caged bird who continues to sing.
For all your anger I must thank you Nietzsche Even if I can never be as happily ignorant as I once was For wasn't the very crux of modern life challenged by you? All of Humanity All the cruelty All the spit Fullness All the Hatred when you threw yourself in front of that horse being beaten in Turin and for losing your mind Just to prove a point.
The German post-enlightenment philosopher Frederick Nietzche (1844-1900) often cited by scholars as "the father of modern thinking" was the author of such groundbreaking texts as Human,All Too Human (1878) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) and Beyond Good and Evil (1886).