Altar Ego
I wrote this poem on a single sheet of loose-leaf paper in 1993, at the age of 19.
Altar Ego
My name is Infinity.
I am the playground of the gods.
I am the defier of the odds.
I am where everything has room to grow.
I give light somewhere to go.
Killing time is my only crime.
My grandeur is as sublime
As the world behind your eyes.
My scope is as blatant
As the stars that fill the sky.
I am the cause and effect
Of the unchanging change.
I make reality
And its twisters
So wonderfully
Painfully beautifully strange.
I keep science guessing.
Their curse is my blessing
Allowing for the progressing of thought.
I hold the answers to every question you’ve got.
I am the future and the past.
My gift to you is the present
Forever.
I am eternal.
I am never.
All and nothing are my realm
Where I am king.
Excited uncertainty
Is the feeling that I bring to life
That keeps it all interesting.
I dwell between numbers.
I live the impossible death.
I know no walls.
I am free
Within me.
My name is infinity…