3.98

an attempt.
0.02 units away
from achieving perfection.

b r e a t h e

keep away.
hide all the knives afar,
stay calm and collected, still.

s i t

there's no use
making a huge fiasco
of a hole worth only 0.5%.

c h i l l

tried your best,
you studied until your fingers
broke for the nineteenth time.

s i n g

please forget
the troubles swimming
inside that complex mind of yours.

and
just
l  o  s  e
y o u r s e l f

for a mere drop of 0.02
doesn't change the fact that you
are simply intelligent.

s m i l e

because surely,
you have a gift to change millions.
and help out billions.

because a number
as wild and rambunctious as 3.98
can only be solved by the brainiest of minds.

for what is 3.98 x 23?
and what is 3.98 / 5?

listless, rambling numbers
a fool could only gawp at.

3.98.

an attempt.
but never have i seen
such beauty in a number so imperfect
that it's perfect indeed
for a mind as sharp as yours
to embrace it.

never as a whole,
but always, in its pieces...