Who wastes his time in contemplating nothingness,
Or pondering the symbol called "a naught"?
Instead, in numerals, we take command of it,
Add it to digits, one side or the other,
To right or left—in either case to multiply.
At right it amplifies—out to infinity;
At left, increases to the infinitesimal.
Who wastes his time in pondering a cipher
As form devised to signify vacuity?
Its mathematical usage points a livelier way,
Bids us deprive negation of a symbol;
For circular forms denote inclusive wholeness
(Repeating their wonder, like psalmody singing itself),
Denying emptiness of fact, of meaning,
Or voidness in eternity, in time;
Adding unendingness to boundless oneness,
To left, to right, in Mind, the encompassing All.
