“I love the dark hours of my being” by Rilke

by Don  

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that's wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:

a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs.

I'm not much of a poetry reader, but I rather liked this.

1 comment

Comment from: Mom [Visitor]

I like this poem too. Thanks.

06/26/15 @ 02:10


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