math like poetry

I want to write away wrongs.

I want a boy who speaks math like poetry
but still understands the difference between
you’re contraction and your possessive;
someone who brings mental diversity lyrically

I want a girl that challenges my fictions,
who sings her way past my safeguards
and can explain calculus in simple English
So give me brave new words to explore my world with

I want a boy who dreams of overcoming statistics
Formulas for better futures tattooed on limbs
with warning signs of defying the norm
with things like outliers
because what is popular is not always right,
and what is right not always popular

I want her like diversity in the languages I speak
Tongues like prophesies proclaiming positivity
Liberated from shackles of conventional thinking

I want a boy who’s a distraction
Close captioned in dialects of ingenuity
With subtitles of hope between his lips
Of refusing to let hate cloud dreams of
“girls can’t do physics”
And “boys can’t dance”
Because I was raised in a world where Barbie dolls told me “math was hard”
Where GI Joes were macho and inadequate in more ways than one,
And Rosalind Franklin was forgotten because she was a woman

So I want a girl who can change the world with
The poise of waitresses who balance
broken plates and forgotten tabs
Like a double order of insecurity

Can rise the next day with determination
wiping under eye circles away
Because sexy is changing the world as an everyday person

So I want you like change craves revolutionaries
Unconventional dedication singing hope as its bedtime story
Glory personified in the form of genuine passion
And love like math speaking lyrically