cole's notes living #2

as the old adage professes,
a little bit of knowledge goes a long way
but what it forgets to mention is that
the long way could be a short distance,
a short distance to fooling us into
thinking we know it all.

we always seem to forget,
deny, denounce the fact that
one-eyed perception only hints at the truth
even so much so that
we can’t help but think
what we know is all there
Is.

what we always have to remember,
what we always need to keep in mind, is that
relying on a little bit of knowledge’s long way
leaves us thinking the book we’ve read
tells us the tale
forgetting the dust covered volumes
left on the shelve
the ones left unread, untouched,
unnoticed.

you see, a little bit of knowledge
does go a long way, a long way
to a short point
but never close to understanding the story
leaving us mis-confidently living on,
living off, the Coles Notes of Life
never realizing that its what we don’t know
that will most surely hurt us
will most definitely help us
when we find out we didn’t
know it all.

-2002/2005