A Bit of Everything

"This poem reflects on the structure of language and the influence it exerts over our perception of reality.  Language is undeniably our dominant mode of thinking.  The very voice inside our head speaks to us in language.  But language has an awful failing.  Its structure is fundamentally different from the structure of reality.  And so our matrix of cognition  ends up being significantly different from the matrix of reality.  

Reality, at a fundamental level, is gradient. All things are connected and diffuse into one another in some way.  Language, with its rigid definitions and compartmentalized structure, fails to accurately reflect reality's diffusions.  Consequently, being so dependent on language means we end up with an overly-pixelated view of ourselves and of the world around us, and we end up with a sense that there are far more boundaries and divisions than there actually are.