Fariel is trained as a physicist. She enjoys  writing and painting in her spare time.  Her art  has
been exhibited internationally and her prose and poems have appeared in Mississippi Crow Magazine and Flutter Poetry Journal.



 

The Mathematician's frustrations
 
 
 
A just read book, an unfinished essay, a myriad of
 meaningless symbols,
 
 a pen
 
 half-filled with ink
 
 or perhaps
 
 half empty
 
 a can of coke a dirty plate with remnants of my meal
 
 lying on the table for eleven days or more...
 
 ideologies, rhapsodies, theories
 
 ideas and revelations
 
 .......
 
 a thesis to be produced.
 
 
 
 A poor student chasing a paper
 
 with patience and strife
 
 naively and
 
 ardently,
 
 expecting
 
 or craving
 
 that knowledge preserved in  books
 
 perused over the pages
 
 would answer unknown riddles
 
 solve the puzzles of life.
 
 
 
 A single point  - one more
 
 - producing a line in unison -
 
 others combine
 
 shapes of complex forms are created
 
 filling space, defining emptiness
 
 providing knowledge with a certain definitiveness,
 
 creating a logical world
 
 charms and enchantments reduced.
 
 
 
 The answer appears translucent
 
 as the shapes possess the holes
 
 that appeared bizarre and fuzzy
 
 the world becomes more prosaic overall.
 
 
 
 Lies, perhaps buried in lies
 
 the validity of the
 
 being
 
 of the two innocent points
 
 and the concepts which with them shine..
 
 the axioms that can't be proved.
 
 
 
 Yet needs and desires fulfilled
 
 the points may stay in peace.
 
 A sceptic cannot exist-
 
 asking why we survive
 
 diminishes our urge to live -
 
 a moronic paradox
 
 programmed by evolution,
 
 or perhaps by mother nature
 
 into our own equations.
 
 
 
 Life must indeed go on,
 
 and we write in black and white
 
 the secrets we have learnt.