THEY ASK: IS GOD, TOO, LONELY

Carl Sandburg

Solo 1: 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

All: That was a great day

Solo 1: 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 to earth

And set apart churches for speech and song with God?

All: These are questions.

They are scrawled in old caves

They are painted in tall cathedrals.

Solo 1: There are men and women so lonely

they believe God, too, is lonely.