LIMIT

 

LIMIT

 

A childhood dream was fulfilled,

Cost of study, merit a daydream,

Struggled in my teenage, in school,

Mathematics books several,

Problems, arithmetic, geometry,

Algebra formulas hundreds,

Trigonometry, calculus etcetera,

Long questions, each set of problems,

I was lost in jungle solving,

Problems willfully made complex,

Formulas hundreds, one suitable,

Choosing the wrong method waylaid,

Arriving at solutions right is very difficult,

Exercises thousand in school books,

A lantern was burning till dawn,

Just one geometric problem to prove,

The night was passing without a solution,

My mind was engrossed in the problem,

Supposing possibility, impractical,

Sat quietly in my room, drew,

Sketching process of construction,

Data, problems never solved, supposed,

Completed once a drawing is noted,

Noted in reverse, solves a problem,

Simple deductions, mind inquisitive,

Seven decades passed but feeling,

Life blossomed as a budding engineer,

One solution arrived correctly,

It took days, forgot lunch, dinner,

How many scolds  by parents,

Unmindful introvert, awkward,

A clue mind proposed, start first,

Ran for my table workout soon,

On pen, pencil, paper stacked,

Exercise notebook piling up heavy,

Could not buy papers, another way,

Chalk box, duster, cement floor,

Every day used to sweep my room,

Bags of chalk dust collected, disposed of,

Not preparation for an exam, addiction,

The high school examination was over,

First division in result joined college,

Mathematics never left me,

Graduation postgraduate degree,

Fundamental formulae from school, 

Still relevant post-graduation,

Mathematical operations four,

Addition, subtract, multiply, divide,

Operation integrate differentiate,

A lifetime passed with numbers,

Computer science post graduated,

To date fails to find correct logic,

A thousand codes of program fail,

Never could give the right solution,

Trial with cut and paste, alteration,

Weeks pass to find the correct logic,

Programming instantly provides results,

Computer a machine as accurate,

Generate numbers millions quickly,

Each number from zero to nine,

Error or answer printing fast,

Decimal numbers hundred correctly,

On the computer screen, look at the size,

The size of decimal numbers is phenomenal,

Thinking where engineering ends,

Expanding universe infinity exists,

A drawing on paper to materialize,

Accurate to decimals, sky scrapper,

Accurate to a bridge, highway, rail,

Accurate to rocket engines from cars,

Accurate to ship thousand tons exact,

Exact to pencil paper, drawing, logic,

Failed to date to find, where the limit is.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra