I believe in all that has never yet
been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring
clear
without my contriving.
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive
me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing
currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening
channels
into the open sea.
into the open sea.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
(Rilke’s Book of Hours:Love Poems to
God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
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