Sunday, July 20, 2008

If only for once it were still.
If the not quite right and the why this

could be muted, and the neighbor's laughter,
and the static my senses make -

Then in one vast thousandfold thought
I could think you up to where thinking ends.

I could possess you,
even for the brevity of a smile,
to offer you
to all that lives,
in gladness.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ah Rilke! In those brief moments when
we can know the world without the static of the senses, the judgments of the world, and the endless mind chatter; then we are free.