Please Sartre, Camus, no existentialism for me!: A poem 

Would you think the flowers in your garden all bloomed 

regardless of the season. Or you ever cursed when the  

storm broke over your home, and you were left with a loss 

of life or value as just an accident; that you begin to realise  

that life and death are not just pennies of providence without meaning.  

Have you realised that you had opportunities to write, while some  

out there, would have been greater writers and philosophers than you,  

but were not literate or had no education. And is your wisdom formed from  

the make or break of action? See, unpredictable circumstances have  

brought on the demise of the greatest civilisations. Is war  

only a machination of human will, or religion, or prejudice?! 

Camus, if suicide can be called existentialist?! Sartre, your  

French was verbose, heavy with so much thought; but far from truth. 

In Hindu tradition, there is much belief in Karma. It gives its 

adherents the depth to be stoic, without being aware of stoicism. 

Above that, is its Dharma, the duty to self and the conscious universe! 

You must know we are all entwined to past lives. Such that, 

we must pay or be rewarded for our acts of previous lives!  

Jainism, goes one step further, propounding that we are all in  

a continuum of existence where there is no beginning and  

no end; and no Supreme; but we all have the choice to attain  

Godhood by being pure in act, word and thought! Buddhism beseeches  

us to attain a sort of Nirvana in nothingness. Christianity,  

wants us all to be disposed to a deep-sea heaven (where the truth is

we are submerged to be eaten by sea creatures, if we are not fish  

ourselves)! Islam talks of a Paradise, only for men, where you can  

indulge in sex with houris as much as you please. And would their  

women be the sex slaves? Isn’t the always prevalent conception of the  

supernatural by humanity a contradiction of your existentialist philosophy? 

But you know God is above all these things. He does not `not exist’ 

But incarnates, time and again; or sends others to guide you all 

away from the forbidden; each time you are all on the brink of falling  

into the depths! Existentialism is not limited to being born and dying, 

or finding purpose in just the existence of a body. There are also preordained  

purposes before we live and after we die!