advent 4: the word.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people." -John 1:1-4

A word
in the beginning
when everything
was blank and new,
like a crisp white page,
the story
yet to be written.
A word
still pulsing,
glowing, dancing,
between the lines
of faded sentences.
A word
amid the
overcrowded
scrawling of centuries.
A word
rejoicing
in the wild spinning
of new tales.
A word
entwined in
the layers and layers
of telling and retelling,
of making new.
A word
from which
all others come.