Awkward Moment

I tasted infinity in my wife's meat loaf
but was afraid to tell her as she's a
sensitive cook

and besides we had guests.

So I swallowed hard and asked,

to no one in particular,
"What single-syllable sound would you choose
for your epiphany?"

to which my wife replied,

"You're just asking that

because you don't like the meat loaf."

"I don't much care for infinity," I confessed.

"Makes me feel negligible,"

to which all our guests applauded.

"But you are insignificant," said my wife.

"We all are, in the great grand scope of

eternity. In six billion years,

what will it matter?"

We all grew quiet and stared

into our napkins.

"I have an answer to your question,"

said my wife:

"∞"