Self Shelved

Are you sure you want to solve
This hard problem that you’ve posed?
Are you sure you want to know
What consciousness is? What then?

What a delicate copestone
For cognitive sciences,
Not to say metaphysics,
To pin down that butterfly,

Winged and stiff on its pillow,
Great steel bar through its thorax,
Point it finally managed
To grasp and plunge in itself.