For all those that have helped, in any way, thank you, thank you. I will wait.
[Exposed on the cliffs of the heart]
Rainer Maria RilkeExposed on the cliffs of the heart. Look, how tiny down there,
look: the last village of words and, higher
(but how tiny) still one last
farmhouse of feeling. Can you see it?
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Stoneground
under your hands. Even here, though,
something can bloom; on a silent cliff-ledge
an unknowing plant blooms, singing, into the air.
But the one who knows? Ah, he began to know
and is quiet now, exposed on the cliffs of the heart.
While, with their full awarenesss,
many sure-footed mountain animals pass
or linger. And the great sheltered bird flies, slowly
circling, around the peak’s pure denial. - But
without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart….