Would that I could measure the volume of a glass half-full
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but the h of my being is an unknowable variable.
Nor can I work backwards the equation for half-life
to account for the value of one well-lived.
I can hope this crisis is the midpoint
and that I don't outlive the remembrance of my past to be caught in a Möbius present.
I have learned enough, now, to measure precisely how much it holds, the irregular curves— less the difference of the holes life left— and yet, my heart is still full.
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