The crux of math, 
computer science, 
language, and how thought arose,
abstraction hath
affirmed compliance 
twixt two facts who seem opposed.

The first is how 
our minds are tuned to 
focus on at most one thought.
Though well endowed, 
they’re not immune to 
puzzlement when overwrought.

But secondly
the facts of nature 
interweave dependently,
so how do we 
conceive this nature
in its full complexity?

We first extract 
a common trait
of things too complex to be known,
then to “abstract”, 
reformulate 
this trait as something in its own.

As such it’s pulled
from all distractions,
single, hence conceivable.
But when minds hold
this dense abstraction,
They enclose a system whole. 

For “things” and their “traits”, 
though separately named,
do more than relate:
They’re one and the same.