Wednesday
Nov282012
This is longing
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 11:12AM
This is longing: to dwell in the waves
and have no home anchored in time.
And these are wishes: the quiet dialogue
of the day’s hours with eternity.
And this is life. Until the loneliest
of hours rises from some yesterday,
and smiling differently than her sisters,
keeps silent in the face of the eternal.
Rainer Maria Rilke, from Mir zur Feier; in KA I, 64;
translated by Mark S. Burrows (© 2012)