The Future Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Future

Rating: 2.9


The future: time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast
a project, too large a morsel
for the heart's mouth.

Future, who won't wait for you?
Everyone is going there.
It suffices you to deepen
the absence that we are.


Translated by A. Poulin

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Alissa 12 November 2017

So truuu lmaoo

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Prague / Czech Republic
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