3 I remember being a child,
4 playing games with my father,
5 Who could say the largest number?
6 But he always foiled me, responding not with numbers,
9 or my worst enemy, infinity.
11 Games end, but concepts do not.
12 Infinity--When I look for you, try to comprehend you,
13 you flee from my grasp.
14 Should I create layers of abstraction--
15 On the confusing, a mask to manage complexity?
16 Some things cannot be comprehended.
18 I see a curve, vertical on one infinite scale,
19 horizontal on another, and linear when both are
23 Infinity is everywhere--
24 a cold, a sneeze away, and never quite gone from the mind.
25 Try as I might, nothing changes.
26 Perhaps I should be satisfied with the mystery,
27 and rehash my thoughts on infinity again.