I think you have captured the gist of what I was getting at quite well, with a wonderful Camus quote to add to it. I do think poetry is a means to help capture that confusion, express it, maybe even loosen some of the inner paralysis. And if nothing more, to at least get some sense of low happening. I love this line you wrote:

Science can tells us so much, but it can't tell us why we need science in the first place.

Thank you for adding to my words in such a valuable way.