Tuesday, March 29, 2011

If only for once it were still





If only for once it were still.
If the not quite right and the why this
could be muted, and the neighbor's laughter,
and the static my senses make -
if all of it didn't keep me from coming awake -

Then in one vast thousandfold thought
I could think you up to where thinking ends.

I could possess you,
even for the brevity of a smile,
to offer you 
to all that lives,
in gladness.



~ Rainer Maria Rilke
from The Book of Monastic Life, I,7



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