How 276 Became Zero

Ezinne Ukoha
1 min readApr 5, 2016

276 plus the night it all

Changed

Equals the tally of bodies that were thrown away in the darkness of brutality

Minus the inevitable rescue by the chariots of soldiers tasked with the successful recovery

Plus the agents of death that branded the integers by cloning the formula of the latest addition to the fold

Subtract the circus of the huntsmen divided to conquer but fallen by the strays of historical blunder as hope fades into the acceptance of each added day

Add the symbols of recognition that can’t be removed to replace the numbers that will never be multiplied to produce the results that will carry over

Return to the original division of bodies, souls, hopes, dreams and innocence.

Try to supply the original application as it was before the daggers of fate removed the sum of all the parts.

You get zero.

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