Doing The Math Poem by Dianne Feaver

The elementary equation  'one plus one is two'
is relied upon as mathematically quite true.
It's a a simple determination
of a proven calculation.

But substitute the addends
with any deeply felt emotion,
greed or hate or love's inexplicable devotion
and their subjective qualities
distribute unknown properties
for a total justifiable
as surely unquantifiable.  

When calculating sums of the human heart
It's difficult to quantify the value they impart
to even complex logarithms
for they follow this truism;
'The total is much greater
than the sum of all its parts.'