Nineteen

 

 

All that we think we know

Forms a limited system of conception

Enclosed within a much larger

and complementary system

Of all that we do not know

And therefore ignore

The more we understand

The more we find we don't know

And the less we actually realize

About the whole system

It is much too vast

For complete comprehension

By any single person or party

And yet to deny a person

His need to know as much as possible

And understand the whole

As if a single entity

Despite the ignorance

And the prejudice that results

Would be to refuse that person

His purpose for living

 

 

by Hugh M. Lewis

Reflections

Lost Souls and Unborn Hearts

1982


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