How Long, How Care

How long did it take You to make the sun?
It must have taken long to make a tree,
a wren, a rose, to make the river run;
how long You spun the soul of one like me.

How much care did You take to make the moon?
How much to program time and gravity?
How much to craft a hazy afternoon?
How much attune a lazy loon like me?

And how much care You put into us two,
You thought of us before there was a there,
You loved me long before I ever knew,
how slow I came to know how much You care.

It did not take You long in making me,
this one You love from-to eternity.

                      -- by Pete Voelz        12/08