The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74867   Message #1310830
Posted By: Clinton Hammond
29-Oct-04 - 03:44 PM
Thread Name: poem or essay on Darkness
Subject: RE: poem or essay on Darkness
You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
And then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! -
powers and people -

and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me.

I have faith in nights.

(Rainier Maria Rilke - You Darkness)