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
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jake (Pseudonym) (
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- 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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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
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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