Sunday, January 1, 2012

through massive rock







It feels as though I make my own way
through massive rock
like a vein of ore
alone, encased.

I am so deep inside it
I can't see the path or any distance:
everything is close
and everything closing in on me
has turned to stone.

Since I still don't know enough about pain,
this terrible darkness makes me small,
If it's you, though—

press down hard on me, break in
that I may know the weight of your hand
and you, the fullness of my cry.





~ Rainer Maria Rilke
from The Book of Poverty and Death III, 1
photo by eliot porter


1 comments:

erin said...

what a wonderful love poem, love with god, love with another, perhaps at times even love with self.

xo
erin