Numbers Aren’t Handcuffs
we were about to camp down there
at the bottom of the mountain
even though we were told
not to sleep until we reached
the summit
that goal was deemed unachievable
before the hike even
had a chance to begin
we did the math
crunched some numbers
our fleshy fingers furiously
tapped number keys
on touch screen calculators
we figured out
that there was
a zero percent chance
of us ever making it
to the top
at most we would collapse
halfway up
but just as surrender set in
and we instantly
began to
digest defeat
we decided
fuck that
fuck being labelled
mathematically impossible
no calculation is going to
tell us what we can’t do
so instead of making camp
we ran up this mountain