Finity

I reached for grander words with which to praise You

than magnificent, or love, or shield and sun.

Bumped up against vocabulary's limit; 

e'en praise squared caps, as praise approaches One.

I learned infinity in mathematics,

which taught me how much finity I have.

For just as I can't sum harmonic series

I can't add words enough to praise You half. 

Resplendent, I may cry, kingly or regal,

sublime or sterling, singular, or prime,

celestial, salient, stunning, radiant, gleaming,

and still words fail 'fore I run out of time.

And yet You made me just the way You wanted,

with finity galore and more to spare.

Though You deserve more praise than words can measure,

to "words plus words"--inhabit and grant care. 

May we, who in our finity keep striving,

show paths to higher words with which to praise,

and know, because infinity's infinity away,

You're praised more in our finity always.