Challenging Poetry

love as a proof

Suppose two variables, X and Y, interact,
where A equals heart
and B equals action and
delta equals the change in time
from the first meeting, where
X and Y approach each other
in care, X not quite sure she
is interested and Y not quite sure
he is ready, through friendship
and courtship and a million little
increment of increasing B that make
A grow, until a proposal
and a joining, and the addition of
little variables, J and K, and millions
more B, tons more A, all changing
X and Y day by day and through the years
while J and K grow and form interactions
of their own and the grand-variables come,
in exponentially greater numbers,
and then finally, as delta draws to a close
in a death, X holding Y's hand
with so many letters around,
none of them able, in the last,
to define X and Y without each other.

April 17—Prove something