You were no tangent touching my heart,

You were a chord that pierced it through,

There’s another variable in this equation,

And its letter starts with U,

 

My monitor un-flatlines when you’re around,

It spikes and peaks with troughs underneath,

And the equation becomes non-differentiable.

A nonsequential series, a sword without a sheath.

 

My integral lost its limits, and now it’s unbounded,

An outlier, an error, an R^2 too low,

The limit can’t suddenly change to undefined, can it?

But deep down inside, it can, I know.

 

So what if the series has an R less than 1?

Let my heart’s limit stretch to infinity.

So what if f(x) has no f prime?

It doesn’t matter, as long as you’re with me.

 

written by Saanvi Gutta

 

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