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jark



discomfort or nonexistence
i’m straining myself deciding 
of which i have preference 
considering one brings about the other 
committing one concludes the question
a persons face pale, blue was the color
end some suffering was my whole intention

  • Author: jake (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 13th, 2022 20:05
  • Comment from author about the poem: i've been reading Albert Camus, and his writings on suicide are endlessly interesting to me. "Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?" he says, in the face of an absurd world all questions are equally absurd.
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  • L. B. Mek

    Seneca wrote:
    '“Can you no longer see a road to freedom? It's right in front of you. You need only turn over your wrists.”
    meaning
    It's the harder choice, to stay and fight
    to find worth in every breath..
    all that BS, glamorising suicide
    is just people, doing all they can
    to hide from the fact, that
    they're more scared of attaining
    the joy's in life..
    Camus
    jumped from country to country
    newspaper to newspaper
    to carve out, his corner of literary history
    in amongst war and stifling oppression..
    he chose to fight for life!
    knowing more about the author, helps
    add context to the books we read
    and our interpretations of their words

    • jark

      Thats what I find so interesting in Camus' work, suicide is so central to any question of free will. Life, and context, it can all be so overwhelming.



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