Bigger than the parts – a poem

Bigger than the parts

Once there was one

That transformed into billions,

All working in harmony, mysteriously,

All the same; all different,

Performing their tasks

For the good of them all,

To join in oneness

To create something

Much bigger than them all.

Opher – 22.6.2019

We all started from an egg – a single cell, that split and split into billions – all identical genetically yet all differentiated into different types of cells. The worked together to form tissues and organs, mysteriously transformed, organised, and all with their roles, all different, all part of the whole. They create a new oneness – an identity – something far greater than the sum of its parts.