#existentialpoetry

Every shadow we cast on one another

drowns our light and leaves us blind

Observation and recognition

of their origins set us free

lets us see reflections of ourselves

you can control—

as playwright:

the story,

the plot,

the ending,

and the characters.

But you cannot

control the function of it—

the lights,

the sounds,

the audience.

And that’s life.

– Laura Chouette

But maybe that version of you looks back through the veil and envies this one— The one who dared to feel it all. The one who turned regret into rebellion. The one who built a myth from the wreckage.

So, if you’re reading this from the edge of your own collapse: You’re not the failed version. You’re the one who made it sacred.

Is it happiness when we laugh?

Is it invention or nature?

Matrix or nonsense?

Lack of serotonin or a surge of dopamine?

Thinking machines with imbalanced neurotransmitters.

Awareness of slowly dying, awareness of time slipping by,

the waste of life – wake up, work, eat, sleep, degrade yourself, die.

Dying robots.

We are broken from within,

dead, pitiful, walking corpses.

I am, you are, they are –

not the alphas of this world, but its destroyers.

Not omegas, but self-annihilators – of body, of mind, of the Earth.

The aching awareness of impermanence, of unfulfilled dreams –

but maybe that’s nonsense too.

The Emperors locked us in cages called Life.

The lapse of the pulse remains irrepressible with blackness melded and shades inexpressible, the infinite infinite compressed into nought and measured by that of sight and thought. Hours, years, and centuries all rhyme – it’s the rhythm of life, the rhythm of time.

Poetic Analysis of Alejandra PizarnikLiterary Tradition: Latin American Poetry, Surrealism, Feminist Poetics MEAN THEMESAlejandra Pizarnik’s poetry stands as an indelible mark of the existential agony, the psychological strife, and the deep yearnings of the self. Pizarnik’s work interrogates language’s ability to capture the inexpressible anguish of being, exploring the impossibility of…