Centre Of Mathematics Attention Poem by John Sensele

I broke the jinx of my Mathematics phobia at midnight
When I figured out timid tactics I adopted all along
Conflating square and rectangle in the oblong
I drew to cast the paucity of understanding in the night

When finally the grasp of concepts grew crystal clear
In tandem with principles, procedures and processes
I discovered lumbered on my mind recesses stresses
That elected and selected for my efforts to leer

As year after year Mathematics scoffed at my efforts
To tame the unpalatable beast many a student left trembling in tears
When sarcastic teachers with gleesplashed red ink to inject more fears
On sobbing students who hanged their hapless heads in shame forts

Where torrents of tears rained in disconsolate fashion
Until Jesus whispered in my ears
‘John, never again should your peers
Laugh at you because henceforth you I've turned into the centre of Mathematics attention.'