The Pleasure Principle - Portrait of Edward James 1937

Substance is not questioned Burning brightly into overwhelm A light shone on everything To the point of obscurity Amazingly the figure is conscious Wishing to know more Everything inside and out This world and beyond Focus small says a voice But intense bright light burns Like a laser eradicating asteroids But one remains in tact A rock may hold the answers But but if close examination fails The challenge is to stop looking Step away, let the intensity fade Who knows, maybe the rocks study us With an existence we cannot process To know more, space must be made And lights sometimes dimmed The fingertips still grasp Posture alert and eager It's clearly the right time to rest Sometimes that's a way to do your best