“The moon was a silver fraction of the sky,” using a mathematical part-to-whole image; “Our love became an equation with no solution,” comparing a relationship to an unsolvable problem; “Each grief multiplied until the room could no longer contain it,” using multiplication to show increasing sorrow; “The years divided us like a line cut into unequal segments,” using division as a metaphor for separation; “Her hope was a small positive number against a field of negatives,” using mathematical signs to contrast optimism and despair