34 - All is all - and yet all is nothing, too

All is all - and yet all is nothing, too.
You doubt that? Then let’s consider the trees:
Each one complete, with its own boundaries,
Separate. This illusion deceives you!
There’s roots and trunk, and sap and branch, and leaf.
Now get your pocket high-powered microscope.
Observe each separate cell, each curling rope
Of DNA, each swirling atom. Brief
Thought tells you that these atoms are not trees.
A distant view, now. See the earth from space:
Again, trees vanish. Telescope to face,
There’s only green, blue, white. I know I tease.
If size is relative, we are their kin.
But are we Cain? Our axe bites deeper in.
Sun 8 Oct 2006