Tribe of Trillions

{reflections on whole numbers}

by jewel

Ars Mathematica

In the Beginning.
Before there was Word,
there was Number.
Before Eternity's End,
after Word
has long since fallen silent,
all the Sparrows shall be Counted,
all the Grains of Sand, Measured.
Though the Proof of our Lives
escapes us
and Meaning is endlessly Deferred;
Number Means.
Where Word fails to Signify,
Number Counts.
Even Infinity shall be measured
when Time stops.
The quickening of our breath
is Quantified.
Number is the quiet civilization:
a Universe contained in each cell,
in every particle of matter.
They are a Tribe of Trillions.
They come before
Alpha and Omega.
In the End. Number Remains.

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