The Self.

I am an orphan
alone;

nevertheless i am
found everywhere.

I am one, but
opposed to my self.

I am youth and old
man at one and the same time.

I have known
neither father nor
mother, because I
have had to be
fetched out of the deep like a fish,
or fell like a white
stone from heaven.

In woods and
Mountains I roam,
but i am hidden in
the innermost soul
of man.

I am mortal for everyone,
yet I am not touched by the cycle
o aeons.

C G. Jung