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Are mathematics a form of rationalism?

One of the arguments I thought about why mathematics is construct is the following: If it was natural, then it would exist independent of people. Would it mean the same as saying that a poem exists without poet who wrote it as a simple combination of words in some existing language? So the poem is in abstract existence before poet writes it down, or thinks of it. I fear that in that case, everything human mind can think of already exists and something seems a bit weird about that fact.

Can someone explain this to me?

Really ? Why?