You claim to have great mastery in mathematics, so go ahead and measure the length of the night of separation.

Here, the poet playfully yet poignantly pits cold human intellect against the deep ache of heartbreak. If someone prides themselves on mastering mathematics and calculation, they are challenged to quantify the endless stretch of a night spent away from the beloved. It captures how emotional pain bends our experience of time, expanding a single dark night beyond the reach of any formula or ruler.