I have always been more familiar with words than numbers

Within my own mother tongue, I might admit the former are my friends

But against this rather tilted tapestry lies a truth between the lines

Because without numbers, words become the habitat of insanity.

For it is numbers that force words to have objective meaning

For if a word means something, that means it portrays at least one idea

For if it means nothing, then zero stands oxymoronic after all

For even zero stands for the something that is nothing

Follow me, for St. John said in the beginning was the Word

Capitalzed to show respect, logos is the idea from eternity

That is the projection of the eternal Spirit called God

Toward His creation in way that at least some of that essence may be understood.

Debated, doubted, trusted, communicated, but apprehended, even loved

Not as mere ignis fatuus, some will-o-the -whisp, a gunderslislik

Dancing like the foot of a rainbow, forever just out of reach

But grasped and held, to be tested and evidenced as . . .real.

We admire the Pathagorean geometricians for their order

But in seeking to know the mind of God, they scarcely saw the half of it

Demanding rational numbers, they thought them to be delimiting  of what was real

And persecuted the first among them to discern the presence of irrationality

Alogos, the inexpressible, they called it. A number that cannot be spoken

But Logos was the spoken word, the Word of recreation

How ironic then, that the numbers guiding the order of creation, even life itself

Cluster with the irrational, among them the golden ratio.

Also, ironic, that those heretical Muslims were the teachers

To the Christian West, the language of an irrational God

The other half ot the Divine Mind, finding a way to express it

Not through theology, but through mathematics and algebra

They were the ones to prove that irrational numbers were real

Just as the Pathagorans thought of the rational ones.

So much for chaos theory, it merely is a sequence of words

To describe the avenues God walks in private, safe from human voyeurism.