Name: Divided By Zero
Duration: P00H03M55S
Description: This poem, by Bradley Nordell, explores love and loss in the life of an academic. While equations can define most things, mathematics cannot solve and recover a lost love or an abandoned life. This beautiful poem spoke to me and practically wrote its own music behind it.

Divided By Zero

from AlgoRhythms by Iambic Beats

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This poem, by Bradley Nordell, explores love and loss in the life of an academic. While equations can define most things, mathematics cannot solve and recover a lost love or an abandoned life. This beautiful poem spoke to me and practically wrote its own music behind it.

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I sent a prayer
To an equation
To solve the weariness
Of living
Incalculable despair
And nightmares of 1 divided by 0
But all my moments
Have now diverged or digressed
From you
From the place I regret

I don’t have faith
In mortal love stories
Or heroic quests
To save my soul
I don’t have trust
In the code written
In my neural space
Without doubt
Without indignant hands
Of entropy and time
Squeezing nihilistic truth
From my Buddhistic light

There was a house
With a garden and a dog
There was a couch
A kitchen aroma
Fingers coiled
Dreams shared
In your blue estoile eyes
And a ring that connected 
Eternal smiles and laugher
That seemed to bounce
Off all art glittered walls
Doorways to love’s
Fathomless kingdom abound

Now there’s
An old desk and lamp
An old desk where I scratched
Truths of the cosmos
And that lamp it
Flickers, dust stars, and old hopes
Across these crumbled pages
As I write
Madness
Line after line
Thinking it matters
Believing these words
Will tell my tales
When I become
This lamp and desk
When I become
An insomniac’s dream

An empty whiskey bottle
Holds more reality
Than this notebook
Torn and tattered fantasies
To escape my despair
For there are no more doorways
Than the ones to you
I wonder
Could I transcend the height I've reached
Or are my wings
As tired as my ideas?

Soon I will become
Ink
An old soul feeding the crows
Feeding Death my memories
The past, soon to be smeared
On double mirrored walls
Of dendritic worlds
Colliding
In a picturesque shadow
Of a lamp
And a lifetime
Of fear

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from AlgoRhythms, released July 23, 2021
This poem was written by Bradley J Nordell and originally appeared in Scribe (medium.com/scribe/the-lamp-and-the-desk-21b32c4041cb).

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Iambic Beats Los Angeles, California

We have so many titles. A few of mine are: scientist, poet, writer, singer, mom. I like to think I live at the intersection of music and words and always asking questions. A goddamn lovely place to be.