Omnipotence.

Omnipotence.

I started with true confidence,
That I could achieve my goals,
That I could quietly persuade,
And all would gradually unfold,
Each in its own compartment,
Each growing slow but sure,
Nothing would be impossible,
Everything would have its cure,
But one by one came obstacles,
Increasingly difficult to surmount,
And although I managed to prevail,
I accumulated debits on my account,
Each one took a little more effort,
Each needed a bit more to say,
And my imagination started filling,
The little gaps along the way,
But the longer I got used to it,
The more it seemed quite normal,
The easier it came naturally,
Being circumspect instead of formal,
And the more I went undetected,
The more invulnerable I felt,
It seemed no matter how hard it was,
Once I had spoken it would melt,
And the joint between fact and fiction,
Became indistinct and blurred,
Until I couldn