IS GOD LONELY, TOO?

Poem for Today - March 19, 2014

THEY ASK: IS GOD, TOO, LONELY?

When God scooped up a handful of dust,
And spit on it, and molded the shape of man,
And blew a breath into it and told it to walk -
That was a great day.

And did God do this because He was lonely?
Did God say to Himself he must have company
And therefore He would make man to walk the earth
And set apart churches for speech and song with God?

These are questions.
They are scrawled in old caves.
They are painted in tall cathedrals.
There are men and women so lonely they believe
          God, too, is lonely.

© Carl Sandburg, 

Harvest Poems,

1910-1960, page 83

Cave painting on top 
from Widipedia, 
"In Indonesia the caves 
at Maros in Sulawesi 
are famous for 
their hand prints. 
About 1500 
negative handprints 
have also been found 
in 30 painted caves 
in the Sangkulirang 
area of Kalimantan; 
preliminary dating analysis 
puts their age 
in the range 
of 10,000 years old."

Check out the poem

on creation by James 

Weldon Johnson, 

on this blog

for February 19, 2014