How do you empty a light of its light?
How does the clockmaker enter the caliber?
How does the immeasurable become finite?
How does the author become a character?
Why would the morning surrender to night?
Why would a great king become a pauper?
Why would the all-seeing limit his sight?
Why would he thirst, who is living water?
I set my mind to comprehend these things,
to wrap them up in a tidy package,
propositions placed in concentric rings—
but how reality outstrips language.
Questions come crashing as waves on the shore,
but better than knowing, is to adore.
Andrew Menkis is a Theology & Rhetoric teacher with a passion for helping students to see and experience the truth, beauty, and goodness of God and his creation. Andrew’s poetry has been published in Modern Reformation.
