Sonnets to Orpheus, Part
One, IV
You who let yourselves feel:
enter the breathing
that is more than your own.
Let it brush your cheeks
as it divides and rejoins beside you.
that is more than your own.
Let it brush your cheeks
as it divides and rejoins beside you.
Blessed ones, whole
ones,
you where the heart begins:
You are the bow that shoots the arrows
and you are the target.
you where the heart begins:
You are the bow that shoots the arrows
and you are the target.
Fear not the pain. Let
its weight fall back
into the earth;
for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.
into the earth;
for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.
The trees you planted in
childhood have grown
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.
~ Rainer
Maria Rilke ~
(In Praise of Mortality,
translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
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