<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">You see, I want a lot.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Maybe I want it all,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">the darkness of each endless fall,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">the shimmering light of each ascent.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">So many are alive who don’t seem to care.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Casual, easy they move in the world</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">as though untouched.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">But you take pleasure in the faces</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">of those who know they thirst.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">You cherish those</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">who grip you for survival.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">You are not dead yet; it’s not too late</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">to open your depths by plunging into them</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">and drink in the life that reveals itself quietly there.</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Rainer Maria Rilke</span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(t</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ranslated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)</span></div></div></body></html>