<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Sense of Something Coming<b><i> </i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">I am like a flag in the center of open space.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and must live</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">it through.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">while the things of the world still do not move:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">the doors still close softly, and the chimneys are full</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">of silence,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">the windows do not rattle yet, and the dust still lies down.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">I already know the storm, and I am troubled as the sea.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">I leap out, and fall back,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">and throw myself out, and am absolutely alone</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">in the great storm.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rainer Maria Rilke</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Translated by <i>Robert Bly</i> )</div></div></body></html>