Working Together: A Poem

Working Together
 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.
 — David Whyte
 from The House of Belonging
 ©1996 Many Rivers Press
 Written for the presentation of The Collier Trophy to The Boeing Company
 marking the introduction of the new 777 passenger jet.