Poetry Month #25: (Trig)gered

I took an online standardized test today.

Math and I don't get along very well in general, so I've been preparing especially for concepts on the practice tests that were difficult. A lot of these were trigonometry concepts.

And if math and I have a strained relationship, my relationship with trig can be represented by the following equation:

trig(me) = math(me) + 10,000(frustration + confusion)

Anyways, I prepped hard to overcome that, and was feeling pretty good about it, and then there were all sorts of new, non-trig concepts I didn't understand in the test.

Oh well.

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Trig(gered)

Oh trigonometry!

What can I call you but mine enemy?

I never thought I’d so desire more of you

But though a foe, you are not one unknown to me

Oh trigonometry!

You who I studied endlessly to comprehend

Thus to defeat by strategies upending you

Through chanting sohcahtoa to a great victorious end

Oh trigonometry!

How is it I despair your absence so lamentingly,

These adversaries are less skilled, yet lesser known than you,

And wish for you above even geometry!

Oh trigonometry!

So many problems lacking you I stared a blank

Since I’d engaged my time anticipating you

For these mistakes your scarceness is to thank

Oh trigonometry!

I must accept albeit unwillingly

I love you not, yet still I longed for you

In dignity to match your tactics skillfully

Oh trigonometry!