Call me into that within your life
which most resists you - when inspiration fails
as most you need it, when feelings will not flow,
or when you think youve won another's heart
only to find it suddenly withdrawn.
What is denied is yours for ever.
Now youre free. For what youd hoped to grasp
can only be possessed if you release it.
O how hard it is to trust our feelings,
we who are too young for what is old,
too old for what may never have existed -
each minute vulnerable as new-born infants,
we are also the yeoman's axe, fulfilment,
and the sweet ambivalence of danger.
A free version of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus Bk2.2
Rufe mich zu jener deiner Stunden
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