Your reflections, @zentalk, like a poem, have aspects of great interest, from my point of view. One of the lines that I liked most because of the way of writing and what they say are the ones that start: "". It seems to me a very accurate thought and said with a successful verbal construction. He approaches the unknown and the mystery of things as a hidden language that has its own rhythm to discover.
I share the criteria that watt thinkers -such as Jung, for example- have presented, who have allowed us to see that what can be considered as dark or negative situations: defeat, failure, fear, etc., form part of our Shadow and that, rather than "fighting it", it should be faced with serenity, temperance and openness. Poetry should help us to do this. Greetings.