The Truth About Authors

by Jason Vanderlaan

We arc guilty, all of us,

Poets and novelists alike,

Of the half-finished.

Half-dreamed, half-hearted.

We are guilty of the metaphor, abandoned;

The idea, discarded;

The story, cut short;

The character, half formed

In the womb of our imagination.

We, authors of creativity and thought,

Arc guilty of abortions and murders.

Of being distracted and bored and busy.

Of leaving a man dangling on the edge of a cliff,

A woman waiting for her lover to return,

A simile unfinished, a rhyme without its other half.

And we.

We are so thankful

That God is not like us -

So thankful that He is both

Author and Finisher,

That He not only writes our stories,

But became a character.

That He not only composes life's poetry,

But is the poetry of our souls.

We are so thankful that He has promised

To finish what He began.