The Whole Truth

Searching for something,

 something real, something true.

We look at, listen to, measure, analyze,

 a bit of the universe, and

We think we understand it,

 each little piece.

But something eludes us,

 that whole which is more than the sum of the parts.

Understanding the parts doesn’t 
lead us closer to the whole.

Like a crystal bowl that has been dropped,

 shattered, scattered, and

All we have are the broken pieces.

How can we understand the whole,

 the truth about the crystal bowl?

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Galen Tromble, November 21, 1990