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I was at a stoplight yesterday thinking of my novels and writing, and how I've woven together so many words to create stories, lives and worlds, but I found myself daydreaming and marveling at all that God has created. 

I've built kingdoms of fiction and fantasy 

I've created beings from nothing 

I know their thoughts

I make them move. 

I've crowned kings and queens 

I caused betrayal and dissension 

and I've started wars and battles. 

I've built these kingdoms, and

I've torn them down. 

There are thousands of flaws 

in all I've created. 

Though I've sown together 

the words that have created 

all of these things,

I can never write enough words. 

There are trails of ink that 

swoop and sway into these poems

I write, but they'll never be enough. 

I've blotted out the imperfections 

until all that is left is everything necessary 

but I'll never make it perfect enough. 

But You, my Lord,

with words alone you spoke

all of earth into creation. 

You are perfect 

and though You've given me the gift

of creating fake worlds and people

and stringing words together 

to paint a picture 

and weaving them into a blanket so they're all connected,

to spill ink onto a page 

until it transforms into poetry,

it will never be enough,

my words will never be enough,

to fully express how thankful I am,

to fully express how much I love You,

My Savior,

and to fully describe the great lengths of Your love for me. 

My heart may overflow with words

that spill into black ink,

but Your heart overflows with love

so great that it spilled into Your blood

so my blackness would be washed as white as a blank page.