The Mathematics Tutorial
The length of your life, call it x,
And time progress together until
Some convergent finite point is reached.
The rest of the world, call it (1-x),
Continues on towards infinity.
Perhaps the afterlife could be counted
As a further arithmetic progression
Towards that theoretical horizon.
Negative and positive results
Finally reaching a conclusion.
If you have multiple rebirths then
This path becomes an oscillating function
Focusing to a stereographic
Projection, a map of the heavenly
Spherical future on a tangent plane.
The complex variables affecting x,
Terminal velocity, rate of growth
And the limits of a bounded function,
Are the series of arguments that must
Be factored in, or solved, until death occurs.
And afterwards, the order of your
Smallness or greatness can be proved.
Alexis Heneghan is an Australian, American, Brit living in Kent. She is a mathematics teacher and enjoys digging her allotment and flirting with men at the local golf club.