I was once told 

that math was everywhere

a universal language that

flows through 

all aspects of life

Yet I only see fractions.

Fractions

A part of a whole

A half, a third, a sixteenth, mixed or irregular

Two sides separated 

by a great wall

or maybe just a line on the page

division written in a subtler way

Most fractions are left as they are

never whole,

kept divided

When you “simplify” a fraction

you aren’t making it simpler

you’re making the division more obvious

When you have to add fractions together

you need the “lowest common denominator”

the lowest denominator shared by all fractions

But when you need to add hundreds of fractions

And each fraction

is unique

is special

and varies in capability

The only way you can add them is with a value

so grand and massive

that many will riot

but won’t end up getting anything done

But there are those with a denominator

so low and simple

to which this seems completely unnecessary

believing that 

surely a lower value could have been found

What they will learn is that

it was the values of the majority that necessitated

overcomplication

Yet all are at the whims of the pen

moved to their places, rearranged 

with new terms forced upon them

Will the writer apologise to the fractions ignored?

Acknowledge their existence?

in their mind

but never spoken aloud

For after all,

they all are just lines on a page