2024 NaPM 15 April

[dukealien]

Angst is Not an End


One does not call for freedom, not,
at least, in honesty.  Indeed
one cries for liberation from
the terror of unlimited
unruled responsibility
and names the bounding borders which
seem to constrain this formlessness
his range of ordered liberty.

So Existentialism’s fault
is to imply those borders are
unworthy when accepted, shared,
as if all rules were villainous
that one did not create himself.
In truth some rules are hëinous
and some less so. Philosophy
must be a guide to choosing well.