Sunday, December 9, 2007

--from Rilke


Am I not the whole? Am I not all things
when I weep, and you the single one, who hears it?
Listen--don't you hear something?
Aren't there voices other than mine?
Is that a storm? I am one also...

That's when I want you--
you knower of my emptiness,
you unspeaking partner to my sorrow--
that's when I need you, God, like food.

1 comment:

Brooke said...

this is so....Good. good like fresh water and smooth rocks and a willow branch.