Cough. Embarrassed nose rub. YES I KNOW. It's freeverse, Malcolm's POV, because he is the only ATHENA kid I can think up off the top of my head. And he is speaking to an unidentified SIGNIFICANT OTHER.
SHUT UP. I KNOW IT'S NERDY. Perhaps you should leave a review describing how outrageously nerdy this all is. And perhaps add a couple of verses using exponents as metaphors. *nods*
equivalentidentities
the thing about us
is that without you
I'm a y searching for my x
if life is a parabola,
you bring me up
stretch me and compress me and shift my phases
and honey, I love every moment of it
::
because you make my
triangles right
my identities equal
and without you
I'm just a common denominator
you make my numbers add up
and my axes align
you make my angles curve
the phi to my pi
the calculator to my trigonometry
and together
we intersect like a curve and a linear relation
and honey, without you
I'm a zero
I'm undefined
I'm the square root of a negative number
because honey,
without you,
I'm not even real
::
so stay with me,
right now,
while the world is falling apart and come hell or high water
somebody is going to die
and somebody is going to be heartbroken
and you know what?
someone is going to be dragged down to Hades, kicking and screaming and turningblueintheface
but that's okay
it's a jumble of identities that don't match
but we can make the right side equal to the left side
and the random numbers into a sequence
and prove the world right in the Pythagorean sense
because with you,
the numbers always add up.