Thoughts on Jean Paul Sartre

Thoughts on Jean Paul Sartre

~

Jean

Paul

Sartre.

 

He said that if we lack purpose

we lack life

we lack meaning

But, it is good to know

that the purpose

doesn't mean much of

anything.

 

It sounds confusing, but it's not.

 

Purpose is relative and is

different for everyone.

The only unity between me

and you and the girl chilling outside

the liquor store and the boy with no legs

and the dead person who died a few days

prior from a long awaited kidney transplant

that never

was actualized.

Yes, the only thing we have in common

is that we all do exist.

What our purpose is...

that is so arbitrary

compared to the fact that we all

breathe

the same filthy dirty

air and

die in the same vain cruel

way

and all get eaten by the

maggots

in the same sunken graves

and all eat and fear and cry and laugh

in the same Goddamned way

just like the president

is built the same as the

homeless man

who drinks from a paper

bag on Sunset

Boulevard.

Reviews

[A.Blasphemy]

Not bad at all! I think this poem receives justice best when read aloud. I enjoy the format - how everything is blocked together... it adds to the message. Well done.