National Poetry Day

[moonlettuce]

You, darkness, that I come from
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone
and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything-
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! -
powers and people-

and it is possible a great presence is moving near me.

I have faith in nights.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Comments

[morganmuffle]

I haven't read that one before, thank you for sharing it!

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

My pleasure. It's one of the poems I adore :D