Working Together
by David Whyte



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.

"Working Together" from The House of Belonging by David Whyte. Copyright © 1997, 2004 by David Whyte. Used by permission of the author and Many Rivers Press (http://www.davidwhyte.com/) All rights reserved. (copied from http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/)