Song of me and you - a poem by Guan Daosheng

When a 12th-century painter learned her husband was considering a second wife, she didn't argue — instead, she wrote a poem about clay, earth and fire. Guan Daosheng's poem - Song of me and you (also called "Married Love") is a 700-year-old meditation on what it means to become inseparable from another person, made from the simplest material imaginable. In under 7 minutes: one love, one poem... captured in a quiet, extraordinary piece from ancient China.Song of me and you - Guan DaoshengYou and IHave so much love,That itBurns like a fire,In which we bake a lump of clay. Molded into a figure of you,And a figure of me.Then we take both of them,And break them into pieces,And mix the pieces with water,And mold again a figure of you,And a figure of me.Now I am in youAs much as you are in me. In life we share a single quilt.In death we will share a single coffin. ....