Dual Quest for Knowing and Not Knowing

The curious mind is an endless flame, That facts and truths cannot tame. For knowing is powerful, sharp and clear, Helping to adapt, learn and face the fear. But knowing comes with a heavy cost and toll. More questions to answer, more doubt to control. But not knowing, too has its place. For ignorance is bliss to engrace. Where the mind lets go in free-fall. In relief, in surrender, to just enthrall. Knowing, sometimes it's better not to know. To lie spaced-out, where turmoil won’t grow. For though we claim to want to know more, In the shadow of the knowledge door, Lies our pull-back, and strain to resist, Over-reaching beyond the canny twist sophist.