"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love"
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

i must be the shape of a cedar tree
and maybe, the openness of the wide open sky
i must be the shape of a rocky bed
or the unending coursing of a mad river running

i'm shaped by my forever changing
expressions of what i love:
the many phases of the moon dancing
the vacant low tide, followed by
the fullness of the tide gone high

and still i'm shaped some more
as rock is carved by the coursing river,
as voices are lifted to sing upon the moonlit shore

~Kate Lamberg