Senses and senseless

First a few verses that inspired the poem:

Psalm8

OLord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth, who have displayedYour splendor above the heavens! From the mouth of infants and nursing babesYou have established strength because of Your adversaries, to make the enemyand the revengeful cease. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Yourfingers, the moon and the stars which you have ordained; What is man that Youtake thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him? Yet you havemade him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty! Youmake him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things underhis feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds ofthe heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of theseas. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!  

Job10:8-12 

Yourhands fashioned and made me altogether, and would You destroy me? Remember now,that You have made me as clay, and would You turn me into dust again? Did you notpour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese; Clothe me with skin andflesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews? You have granted me life andloving kindness; and Your care has preserved my spirit.

Psalm139: 13-16

ForYou formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanksto You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are your works, andmy soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was madein secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes haveseen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days thatwere ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. 

Before I saw, or was yet seen

By any creature here

You saw me Lord, and knew my ways

And saw my life so clear

And cell by cell each hour and day

From nearly nothing I

Was woven Lord, by Master hands

Whose craft none can deny

You gave me eyes, O Lord, to see

The stars and sunset’s flame

Such beauty Lord, as can’t be called

By any fitting name

You gave me touch, to know the feel

Of bark and stone and steel

To feel the cool of ice and wind,

And know my breath is real

You gave me ears, to capture Lord

The sounds of songs and words

And filled the world with music, Lord

Of symphonies and birds

You gave me taste to make my meals

Delicious,wondrous, grand

You filled the world with flavors Lord

So many tastes at hand!

You gave me smell, to better know

The joy of growth and heat

In foods and flowers overwhelmed

My senses are complete.

Oh Lord how great the life you wove-

This intricate design!

How glad I am that this whole life

Is blessedly now mine

We thank you Lord that each of us

Is full of life to live

That you, Lord, wove us each in love

A blessed life to give

I pray each day you will O Lord,

With care our children make

And break O Lord the will of those

Who your creations break

For fearfully you build O Lord

And wonderfully we’re planned

Plant fear O Lord, in those who break

With terror stay their hand

Convict, O Lord, the hearts of those

So blinded in their sin

To know that you’re at work to grow

That precious life within

For every sense that in them dwells

Is mirrored in their womb

O Lord protect the helpless ones

Whom senselessness has doomed