Silent friend of many
distances, feel
how your breath enlarges all of space.
Let your presence ring out like a bell
into the night. What feeds upon your face
how your breath enlarges all of space.
Let your presence ring out like a bell
into the night. What feeds upon your face
grows mighty from the
nourishment thus offered.
Move through transformation, out and in.
What is the deepest loss that you have suffered?
If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine.
Move through transformation, out and in.
What is the deepest loss that you have suffered?
If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine.
In this immeasurable
darkness, be the power
that rounds your sense in their magic ring,
the sense of their mysterious encounter.
that rounds your sense in their magic ring,
the sense of their mysterious encounter.
And if the earthly no longer
knows your name,
whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing.
To the flashing water say: I am.
whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing.
To the flashing water say: I am.
~ Ranier Maria Rilke
~
(Ahead of All Parting, ed.
and translated by Steven Mitchell)
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