Continuous Functions

In mathematics there are functions

everything has a function

despite not being as you might wish

everything has a function

the sun itself has its function

changing hydrogen to helium

providing light and heat for us to use

but there are many tunnels, with many lights

and each light can only illuminate

that which you allow yourself to see

however, the critical point is not the light

nor the seeing, nor the feeling

but the entire function

for without the sun, there would be no life.

Life, life they say

is more than the sum of its parts.

But life is not a sum, nor a series

it is a continuous ongoing experience

a function of useless carbon

Our lives are made up of the critical points

where we choose to really live

we may not see them as they fly

we may not even ever guess

as to the function defining our lives

But everyone has a light

a light with which to see the past

and fight the dark

the dark of empty loneliness

of tomorrow's dawn

And thus, life goes on

with or without us, mathematics does not care

the sun is not for us to see

[even this flashlight by which I write

cannot illuminate

that which I wish to see

for that is not its function

the only light whose function equals

that which I dare to see

is that flimsy greyness, wish,

wish, whose function is to entice

our vision from what truly is

And thus again, I say goodnight

to this critical point of life

instead of passing continuously

I have broken the bounds

that held false life

negating the flimsy greyness

of what might have been

and what might still be

changing the growing darkness

into rejoicing dawn]

(25 October 2010)