The Hidden Math Behind Being Alive

Every choice  

Is a quiet equation

A sum you never see  

Until the answer  

Cuts through you

You trade a breath  

For a moment

A moment  

For a memory

A memory  

For the person  

You become

The world keeps score  

In strange variables

Fear

Desire

The weight of silence

The cost of staying

The cost of leaving

Love divides you

Time subtracts you

Hope multiplies you

Death solves you

And somewhere  

In the margins  

Of your life

The hidden math  

Keeps writing proofs  

In shadows

Showing that every gain  

Carries a loss

Every light  

Casts a price

And every heartbeat  

Is an equation  

You pay to exist