Burning questions
So much that burns in us
the insatiable thirst
for knowledge
and for understanding
we are unresolved
perplexities
with more questions
than answers : and so
we look to the stars
to their crisp frosty light
in the wintry sky
to the origins of our life
of the energies
that burn within us
This is the physician’s school
and we are the wisdom
such as it may be
of elements
built from time
from the synthesis of light
restless minds groomed
to investigate and to doubt
to challenge every assumption
to interrogate the rose
and the nightingale
and to dismiss the platitudes
of human history
and yet we are the children
of unbridled desire
for ever more life
and for ever more love
a metaphysical transcendence
an incandescent eternity