He advocated the circle after the longest night
He faced demonic visions filled with endless fright
The world is our garden to be embraced not denied
Can words and sounds bridge the separation of our minds?
Sick by his own redemption, his inversion of values
The smallness of the great man still finds a way to bind him
Man must become what he is by embracing the 'evil' within
The great disgust with humankind must we overcome and spit out
"How well you know what consolation I invented for myself in seven days!
That I have to sing once more..."
"All things eternally return
And we ourselves with them
We have already existed an infinite number of times
And all things with us
The knot of causes of which I am intertwined is part of the causes of the eternal return"
"I come again
With this sun
With this earth
With this eagle
With this snake
Not to a new life Or a better life
I come again eternally
To this identical and self-same life"
In all its greatest and smallest
To teach again the eternal return of all things
To proclaim the ubermensch to man
To proclaim the ubermensch again
The Convalescent is the teacher of eternal return-a dangerous crushing destiny is now learned.