Monad and add

I’m no good at music, but I could hear through the dinging

That, the last time we were together, all of us stars were a’ singing

“The monad was the first thing that came into existence

It begat the… urr, dyad …without any assistance”

 

Those two begat the numbers, and then points they did become

Which over time, formed into lines, in a continuum

The lines then evolved into flat shapes, which we can conceive

But they grew up quickly, into three-dimensional entities

 

These begat the bodies, which became four elements

Earth, water, fire and air, and to me this represents

That the monad is thus a central concept, in my cosmology

Cos the world is built from numbers, as easy as one, two, three