Song inward

What do you do? All.

What are you worth? Who can say,

Presages, essays,

Power and gall...

What are you worth? Who can say...

What do you want? Nothing, but all.

What do you know? Annoy.

What can you do? Dream.

Dream to scheme

Each day into night.

What do you know? Dream

To scheme away annoy.

What do you want? My wellbeing.

What must you do? Know,

Foreknow and do

What’s good for nothing.

What do you fear? Go.

Who are you? But nothing!

Where are you going? To death.

To do what there? To finish,

No more revisit

The luck of the devil.

Where are you going? To finish.

What for? The dead man.

Paul Valéry