Gods and Numbers

Creation or discovery?
A mathematician muses.
It does feel like discovery.

Surely, if it were creation
It would be easier. Sometimes
You so want something to be true,

But you can’t make it so—it won’t
Agree with you. In creation
You could make it what you wanted.

Oh, could you now? mutters the great
Creator. You really think this
Is what I wanted, what exists

For you to enjoy creating?
Discovering, if you insist.