This is Fact! <br />If a quadratic equation <br />With real coefficients <br />Has complex roots <br />They will come <br />In conjugate pairs. <br />Fact. <br />An enzyme is <br />A protein catalyst <br />A biological catalyst <br />Fact. <br /> <br />Hard and bare. <br />With none of the <br />Physicality of living. <br />Facts that teach us nothing <br />That tell us nothing. <br />Of where we're going <br />Where we've been. <br />How to battle the ever <br />Growing apathy tides. <br /> <br />So <br /> <br />I sat at my maths book <br />And cried tonight. <br />For forty minutes, I cried. <br />I want to be a wordsmith. <br />To take language and make it my own. <br />To fill my head with free <br />Flowing thought. <br />With unchecked hopeful adlib. <br />And it breaks my heart. <br />To curdle it <br />With facts.<br /><br />Lauren Michaels<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-education/
