Different

I found this in a notebook - one of a number of attempts to address this topic. It's not a polished work, but it may provide some fodder for thought.


There was nothing else
And then, with a word, there was.


If it had been the same,
it would only have been more
What good is more all?

It had to be different.
Both different and less
All cannot give what All does not have
And how does all better or best all?


So less, less than nearly
for nearly is a parody, a joke, an insult
that allows the illusion of equality.


Different and vastly less
But still with some correspondence
because without relationship, what's the point?


Different and vastly less
with no reason for relationship except free choice
so regard is given freely to the less, not owed


Different and vastly less
But corresponding, reflecting
Because without relationship, What's the point?