Collectively

 All the thoughts we can think have been thought

All the words we know of have been writ and said

All the sounds we can hear have been made

All the sights that can be seen have been seen

Everything has been imagined & dreamed

All the wars have been fought

Everything has been won 

Everything has been lost

Someone always claims to know the cost

and maybe they do but they'd never tell me or you

They say pressure turns coal to diamonds

Immense pain has been felt

Living a hard life here makes you shine somewhere else

We don't see much at all

There is more here than meets the eye

We only see what the brain thinks we can handle

That's the why and how of survival

Some see or hear a little more

some a little less

If we could all know what everyone else knows

Maybe we could get out of this mess

but what about the individual?

All the thoughts we can think have been thought...