Five Demons

I am a multiple personality. My subconscious demons are always crossing their swords in a fight for dominance and might to control me. I am the fighting arena, where the main prize is to wield immense power upon my thoughts and actions. The victor gains limitless access to the deepest corners of my mind and the darkest chambers of my wishes. I am fated to be controlled by the demon���s desires, notions and values���

���I ��� Thinker��� is the cleverest demon of all. The name of Faust was given him by Lucifer - the Lord of Night and Hell. He comes out only in the darkness of the night and asks the questions which may not be answered by the man. He forces me to look into the celestial sphere of magical stars, think about the beauty and essence of Life. He takes me to travel through the sky of immortals ��� Socrates, Aristotle, Descartes, Nietzsche and numbers of others. He is the priest and the dreamer, he is the question and the answer, he is the beginning and the ending. He knows everything and nothing.

���I ��� Leader��� is a demon tenable and strict. He calls himself The Mighty Caesar and often proclaims the words of success - ���Veni, Vedi, Vici.��� He sees no limits for his quests but is careful. He is like a chameleon changing his color to disguise the enemies of his. He can be either a Diplomat or a Despot, a Democrat or a Socialist, a Liberal or a Conservative ��� anyone who he wants, or has to be. This curious demon feels pleasure to enter a discussion with every thoughtful person he meets. He never gives up. He fights until he commits the opponent to defeat. He is proud about his victories but never about himself. He dares to face the challenges but never the stupid ones.

���I ��� Athlete��� is a venturesome gambler, the demon of adrenaline and adventure. His credo is ���Citius, Altius, Fortius��� and he dreams about being the first in the Olympic Games. He gulps down every glass of a victory champagne; he bathes in a blaze of glory and sends air kisses to the girls when the crowd gets wild. He hates defeats, however, he considers them as challenges of everyday. He doesn���t know what fear is. Authorities do not exist to him. He lives only for the sweet feeling of victory, ten seconds of running and being free as a wind.

���I ��� Creator��� is quite a controversial demon. Once being taken by the enchanting scent of love perfume, he can feel like Shakespeare and write heartwarming sonnets to his Juliet in the dark of the Moon. Just a moment after that, challenged by someone���s dreadfull act, he can manifest a work for Human Rights and then declare the Self-independence Act. This demon is emotional in any case. He can sing the song which he has heard in the Moulen Rouge, even though he knows nothing about music. He creates because he lives, he lives because he creates. He writes what he feels. He writes nothing as well as everything.

���I ��� Friend��� is the softest demon of all the five. Some noble values you may find, which make him special and nice. Maybe he is na��ve as Don Quixote fighting with windmills and sheep, yet sometimes chivalrous as one of the musketeers, believing in saying ��� ���One for all and all for one!��� He knows the meaning of word friendship and does not share it with every person in the street. He feels the difference between friends and acquaintances. He keeps his word. He trusts his friends.

And so I live with five demons of mine. I am just a marionette of my inner inmates, a prisoner of a cell, where no thoughts can see the daylight of the sky. Nothing real is left. Dreams and visions prevail but my eyes can still notice something in the dark. It seems like a new Alexandria, a place where demons are curbed, a place where they are controlled. Not I. Meanwhile my demons fight again and nobody knows who will win this time���