The Plea ($5)

This is the poem I purchased:

"The Plea"

You found a piece of clay by the roadside

and thought you had found a jewel;

and kneaded and rolled it

to change it into your dreams;

but it has travelled many a voyage,

and crossed many seas, climbing

ladders of Babel and Babylon;

molded life with a drop of nectar,

the age old juice;

crossed moats to ideals and lived the great philosophy;

take comfort; don't change me;

for our minds will unfold the

bold secrets of motion

and waves will flow as a fountain

and mountains will rise up

and hands will sift the seawater

and I'll be at your side.

- Ricardo 1975