circle

the mind of rushed determinism

urges, desires to know

yes or no? good or bad? black or white? which one is it?

in a rush to decide. to know with certainty

whether to accept

or to reject

willful, supported by a belief

that the world fits preconceptions

of yes/no, good/bad, right/wrong, clean/dirty, legal/illegal.

a binary world

binarizable

certain

such approach can attempt

to understand the path of a circle

by rendering it finely

onto a pixel lattice.

indexable and discrete.

tracing its path

where is the next dot in the circle's path? one asks.

in this pixel here, or in a neighboring square?

70% here but 30% not here

neither answer satisfies

the curious seeker

and one may believe

the true next dot is smaller than any one pixel

one may refine the grid

Place a hundred pixels where there was once one,

and try again, look deeper, compute finer.

yet the result will never fit

not here nor there

no stretch of refinement nor anti-aliasing method

can more than approximate or cover the imperfections of this trace

of this shape.

no discrete grid can express truly

the nature of the round.

its truth lies not in here nor there

its truth lies not in yes or no

dot by dot

angle by angle

its nature transcends grid,

and no redesign of a binary framework

can guide one to its understanding.

as its nature transcends the grid

so can only one recognize its true nature

by transcending the duality

that draws straight lines in a reality of curves.