A Sabbath Poem (Tao-Sheng)

WE ARE CLAY
~ by Kuan Tao-Sheng

Take a lump of clay,
Wet it, pat it,
Make a statue of you
And a statue of me
Then shatter them, clatter them,
Add some water,
And break them and mold them
Into a statue of you
And a statue of me.
Then in mine, there are bits of you
And in you there are bits of me.
Nothing ever shall keep us apart.

(quoted in Of Love and Lust by Theodor Reik)