No Words - Poem for Dad

** Written for my Dad, Darl Andersen when I was a young teenager


                     No Words

I sit here with paper and pen
   and I search
      for words to write.

But there just aren't words
   good enough to give
      him justice.

How can words describe a man . . .
   -- Whose honest blue eyes actually speak
          words of kindness and love
            without saying a word?

   -- Who can lift dark clouds of a rainy day
          so high that I can't see them -
            even if they are still there?

   -- Who counsels me with more wisdom
          than the world's most renowned
            and wisest scholar could?

   -- Who can make even the mirror believe
          when he ways,
            "You are a very beautiful daughter"?

   -- Who has helped make my life brighter
          than the very
            brightest star?

God made words so that man could speak
   of the lovely things
      in life.

But even far greater than words,
   God created
      my Dad

And when He did, I think he knew
   that this greater creation
      would speak for itself.