transformation

a lump of clay
that you try to shape
that you try to make
into what ?
the form of a four legged glob
Mrs. O’Leary’s  cow ?
Paul Revere’s horse ?
Sheena’s zebra ?
the biblical burro ?
but still it is a beast

until finally it speaks to you
in the voice
the cadence
the pleading
the logic
of your own misplaced Soul
only then finally, do you know
that
it is a poem