my parents spoke languages of the great and grandest:
they were left cryptic symbols I could not pronounce
nor comprehend - I was merely a jester, a kid in a temple
of adamant logic and holy symmetry; what I remember
are delta-phi-sigmas inscribΣd Φn the ωΔlls, forming
a score of astral melodies, a perfect pitch sound.
Euclid stood by the altar, Pythagoras was the priest
at funerals of fallacies buried deep underneath
remnants of uncertain theories; they were plucking
off pages enwrapping the ripe fruit of wisdom
only to break humanity's savage, primordial teeth
on its tough seed. I used to hear my father join
the chantin