individually

too much

try and see everything 

and you will understand nothing

the light will blind you

the waters will drown you

the air will suffocate you

oblivious and confused

buried in the light

stuck within the dirt

you will never see

you will choke upon life

you will never live

Author's Note

Reviews

[Papaya]

The title has me reflecting on individual knowledge and skills/strengths coming together to be/create something better. Progress is taken in baby steps.

[Davidgeo]

That had crossed my mind coming up with this. The main theme I had in mind was trying to learn everything at the expense of ever really having a deep knowledge of anything in particular. There is too much to learn, if we try and learn everything we will never have a chance to think about what we've learned. I kind of Also borrowed from one of the oldest known quotes "he who has many friends, has no friend" or "oh my friends!! I have no friend." or some version of that usually attributed to Aristotle but he likely "borrowed" it from elsewhere. There's an almost identical version of it in pretty much every culture dating back a thousand years before the greeks. Aristotle was probably just a very clever plagiarist.