Hidden Figures
The zeroes and ones, the fours and the threes The digits that have some meaning to me Significant numbers, ages and dates Still figuring out these figures, of late What's seventy-five? How does it compute? It made me alive; a baby so cute! Put nineteen before it; what do you get? Four digits that tell of my own onset Of course, don't forget! A zero and two Just turn that around; that's twenty for you It fell on a Monday, oh yes, it did! The day of my birth; I opened my lids There's also a ten, a relevant age When chidlikeness lingered on from this stage The curious, wide-eyed, quizzical boy Accompanied manhood; anchored the joy And then number two for girls who became The two who held titles others can't claim Two girlfriends in all for all of my life I think I'm all good... 'til I find a wife Thirteen for the day my father breathed last His heart bade farewell, his shadow was cast His legacy rich to me he besto...