I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing, and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
~Rainier Marie Rilke, from Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
(Photo by rebekka.)
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