O64 - One Plus One

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Poetic Forms: Sapphic; Scientific achievement: Arithmetics
Format: Poem
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Amrothos and Akilah (OFC)
Pairings: Amrothos/Akilah
Summary: 1 + 1 = ?

One plus one

Darkly veiled you sat in your chair and watched me
(Sitting by you tongue-tied, lacking in language,
Counting up the reasons, sound and rational, di-
Viding you from me),

Lightly traced your fingers – positive, natural –
Fraction by smooth fraction, argued, persuaded:
One and one joined can make surely more than the
Sum of each other.

Comments

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

I like this mathematicasizing of their relationship. Yes, a good marriage is far more than the sums of two individuals!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I found the form really tricky, I'm not sure how successful I was.