Zero Truth from Pagan Mesoamerica
An ancient Olmec scholar dreamed it up.
He worked it out within his Allah-less thought.
He did not need to use a carved stone cup
Of baby blood to figure math’s round nought.
This Olmec thinker lived three thousand years
(Or maybe more or less) before that man
Mohammad with his bands of cut-throat peers.
The zero popped up in that humid span
Of Mesoamerica, distant from
The arid desert mindset of that One
God theory. The mathematic sum
That must be reckoned is that left side’s “none”
Came not from Arab thinking but from long
Before that. Pagan Olmec minds were strong.