A Message From Rilke

I Love The Dark Hours Of My Being by Rainer Maria Rilke from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God,

translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters,

the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open to another life that’s wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree rustling over a gravesite and making real the dream of the one its living roots embrace:

a dream once lost among sorrows and songs.