She Needs Words

She needs words

She said

But what words

Can capture

This love I have

To hold it

In a box

As if eternity

Could be

Measured

By a clock

Or placed

Along a line

To be weighed

Are colors

Seen

Through their names

Or honey

Tasted

By licking letters

Posing on a page

The song sung

When her name

Dances across my heart

Is a melody

Whispered

In every breath

Breathed

By him

Who brings life

To all

It is a gift

Received

To be given

A seed

Planted

By him

Who knows

What words can mean

As well as what

They cannot say

For depths

Too deep

To be mined

By minds too bound

To earth

Too far from heaven

And its rarely mentioned

Mirth

A song woven

With dancing threads

Of sunlight

Pirouetting

On Christmas morning

Remembering

With an odd smile

A wink

And a piercing rush

Of hope

That God has come

To live among us

And finding

Her hand placed in mine

With a promise

To walk this day

And the next

Together

What words

Can I give her

To tell her

Of this love

I have

To thank her

To thank him

To hold her

While holding him

While being held

With words

Spoken

And silent

I will speak

Because

She

And she alone

Holds my heart

Forever

So if she needs words

I will find them

And even though

They cannot carry

All I hope

To say

To offer

To open

To promise

They will be hers

Words

To remind her

Of things unspoken

Which words

Cannot hold

But nonetheless are true

She needs words

She said

So may he

Who called forth light

With the first word

Spoken

Grant me ability

To open my heart

With breath

Bearing gems

However flawed

For my soul’s love

To heal her wounds

Which lesser words

Have torn

To offer comfort

Strength

And joy-filled assurance

That my muted silence

Ravaged

In days gone by

Loose my tongue

My sovereign

To sing

Of her beauty

Her grace

Her sweetness

To bathe her

In melodies

That herald my love

For her

For truly she is

My treasure

My gift

My helper

My friend

My wife