I am the forbidden fruit in the garden of math
perfectly shaped without start or end
simple, elegant, curious
infinitely tempting
But no one dares to eat me as I don't really exist
in fact I'm actually not on the graph
irreversible, inconsistent, untraceable
eternally troubling
I am "division by zero" and life is not easy for me
even the smartest of computers think I'm crazy
undefined, ERROR, out of bounds
forever elusive
Continue your discussions of philosophy and math
but please oh please don't lose sleep over me
one day you may understand
I await patiently
What a beautiful poem, Carly!
ReplyDeleteI love the offset phrases -- "infinitely tempting", "eternally troubling", "forever elusive", "I await patiently" -- and the image of perfectly-formed forbidden fruit. I would like to see you enter this one in , perhaps with some drawn or photographed images to illustrate...