Numerically Speaking

Key-stone to the system is the cipher:

A zero growth from no-thing, to be sure;

Before too long, starts an inner-lifer,

Becomes a lonely one, quite singular.

A twin for company, the second one

Links with the first to form duality,

And from their union emanates a son,

He’s the third dimension, reality.

Comes a fourth to the matter, forms a square,

And produces water, earth, fire and air.

But from the depths of time creeps a demon,

A fifth of the way to the Pentagon.

Lastly borne Man, whose sane and rational

Attempts at sixth sense are hexagonal.

Sonnet XII