You Darkness - Rainier Maria Rilke

[Larry Robinson]

You Darkness

You Darkness, from which I come,
I love you more than all the fires that fence out the world.

Because the fires make a circle of light
so that no one can see you any more.

But the Darkness holds it all.
The shapes, the animals,
The flames and myself.

How it holds them.
All power, All Strength

And it is possible, a great energy is breaking into my body.

I have faith in the night

	- Rainier Maria Rilke
	(translation by Robert Bly)