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You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start,
I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense
images in me -- the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and
unsuspected turns in the path, and those powerful lands that were once
pulsing with the life of the gods-- all rise within me to mean
you, who forever elude me.
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window in a country house-- and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon--
you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image.
Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, separate, in the evening...
Rainer Maria Rilke
Published on July 08, 2013 07:16