you,
darkness,
of whom I
am born –
I love you
more
than the
flame that limits the world
to the
circle it illuminates
and excludes
all the rest.
but the
darkness embraces
everything –
shapes and shadows,
creatures and
me –
people,
nations, just as they are.
It lets me
imagine
a great
presence stirring beside me.
I believe
in the night.
-
Rainer
Maria Rilke