Alphabet Love

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Words cannot describe what I feel for you.
Scattered and crumbled pages strewn across the floor, demonstrate pathetic attempts.
Crossed out phrases
Scratched out words 
Frustration flowing through the pen 
The 26 letters in the alphabet have completely and utterly failed me.
Unable to form a phrase about your eyes
Or a word for your smile 
Or a even syllable about your laugh
The constants and vowels crumble, useless.
And all these letters can offer me is one word, using 4 letters of the 26.
Love.
But this word cannot contain all I feel for you.
It is spilling over the edges.
It is not large enough or wide  to hold all I feel.
If I could, I would rearrange all 26 letters to form a word. 
And yet the word would still not be long enough or tall enough.
Words and letters are incompetent.
Failures.
They cannot rearrange in such a way to describe what I feel for you.
So I settle for the word they can offer, love.
And oh do I feel that for you.

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