Working Together

"We shape our self
to fit the world

  and by the world
are shaped again.

  The visible
and the invisible

  working together
in common cause,

  to produce
the miraculous.

  I am thinking of the way
the intangible air

  passed at speed
round a shaped wing

  easily
holds our weight.

  So may we, in this life
trust

  to those elements
we have yet to see

  or imagine
and look for the true

  shape of our own self,
by forming it well

  to the great
intangibles about us."

David Whyte

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