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Agreeableness, Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, Carl Jung, Id, Integrating the shadow, Italian sonnet, Jungian psychology, Petrarchan sonnet, poem, poetry, Psychology, Shadow archetype, Sigmund Freud, sonnet, The Dark Side, the Persona, The shadow
The shadow lurks beneath your consciousness.
Go meet him, for he is your primal mate;
Engage with this dark archetype innate.
For your persona he could not care less,
And this he will quite willingly confess.
In order that you reach a stronger state
Your darkness and your light must integrate;
It isn’t wise, your shadow to suppress.
It’s best that you confront your darker side
To understand your capabilities
And realize potential waiting there.
Until you do, he deep within will hide,
While conscious self will try its best to please,
By being nice, agreeable and fair.
dnobrienpoetry 
You get better and better. Practice makes perfect — if you practice perfection.
Thanks Tom.
Very nice work, Dennis. But I’d hate to think this concept is true.
Thanks Sandra.
I watch some documentaries on murder cases and it frequently strikes me how normal the murderers are (a husband or wife, friends, businessmen, etc.) and how they simply started down a path where it got darker and darker and then did what they would have thought they would never do before they took those first steps in the wrong direction.
Yes, I find those documentaries interesting as well.