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Rainer Maria Rilke

“It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault,
we both had nothing except patience,
but Death has none.
I saw him come (how meanly!)
and I watched him as he took and took:
none of it I could claim as mine. ”

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images
tags: death
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The Book of Images The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke
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