Monday
Feb062012
Only You
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 1:47PM Only you, you alone, are.
We, however, wander forth until finally
our passing is so immense
that you arise: a moment
more beautiful and sudden
arising in love, or enchanted
in the contractions of work.
I am yours, yours, regardless of time’s
passage. I am commanded from you, and
to you. In the meantime,
the garland hangs by chance – unless you
take it up, up, up. And
look: festival!
Rainer Maria Rilke; translated M. S. Burrows; ©2006
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