nine; like bars

This is one of my pieces written during Calculus class (; It's focus is on friendship, and the...issues that come with it. I think tomorrow I may post a full explication of the work, because for one, I don't feel like typing it up, and for two, the poem + explication is a little much for one day :P

friends make lines (bars)
between
one – two – three five

but four;
if I wanted four as
unattainable goals
(including those unseen)

I could cut, scissor, slash
apart (bars)
but bars don’t break;

bars melt like molten
words

and I’m left behind
(bars)
where four is
unattainable.