Imagnary Real

Don't let this poem give you a headache, please stay with it and I promise if you follow along it will come together in the end...watch how I compare my imaginary man in my head to math...

Imaginary Real

What is a number really? 

I got people lookin at me like ok Dani is just illy or just outright being silly

No really, how real is the realness of how you really quantify or shall I say process how real a number is for real?

And who is to say a number is really a number, because for real, a number really isn’t a number for real for real, ok I just killed your logic

But that’s what poets do right, we defy logic by way of how our logic symbolizes logics of real things that are symbolic

See, there’s that word real again, so let me reel your logic back in

So we know arithmetics and defined values traditionally are how we represent numbers

But realistically arithmetical values can be expressed in words and symbols

Did you catch that?

Algebraic equations are nothing but characteristic symbolic statements we fill in to complete the intended sayings

The ASCII fillers are still used in counting and making calculations

Imagine that, numeric quantities translated from series of non numeric abbreviations and identifications

Do I still have your concrete logic wavering? Ok so let me continue to break down this real logic I’m laboring

And then I’ll begin tapering off so your new real logic can begin savoring this symbolic flavoring

Ok so we got the number out the way, were you aware that there’s a such thing as an imaginary number, yea right no way is what you say

Ok, let’s have a real quick complex math session today

There’s a mathematical number coined, lower case italicized i, based on the square root of the minus of the number that’s not real

I know you’re like, are you for real?

If you didn’t get that, it’s like say the real number is 1, you have an imaginary equivalent of the square root of minus 1, that’s the imaginary sum

So you ask, where in the hell did you get that from? This is real math baby, no lie, when we’re done go surf the web on a google run

Simply put, it aint nuttin but a complex number in the form of a + bi where a and b are real numbers, and I is the square root of -1

Now you can substitute a or b with any real non zero number, but the i remains the complex one

So I mathematically equate this form to the imaginary man my head has spun but really real once you fill in the sums

The missing pieces algebraically make it an arithmetical imaginary run

But when the fillers come to reveal the products of the sums, the run runs from imaginary to real

And to me that is a really big real deal

So here’s what I’ve imagined, and this is real short by the way

Compassion and concern, tender physical caresses that make my body yearn

Protection and security, like warding off my impurities, voluntarily

Loyalty and understanding, never sanding the smooth surface of our established built from the ground up love branding

Listening without defending, speaking without offending

Sending just because I love you’s, doing little things to say there’s no one above you

Making my heart and my expressions smile, mentally stimulating me all the while

Being considerate and having fun, when this man comes my imaginary real victory is won

Till then I’ll substitute potential numerical runs till the sums are all negated down to one

One imagined number, several real imposters, one real one imagined, one imagined turned real, a real number from imaginary maybes

It all comes down to math baby