working together
david whyte
1996

• We shape our self
• to fit this 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.