Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Rilke’s Valentine

Is death a provisional
reassignment of energies
or a permanent change
of address a cleansing wind
or a divorce from all the senses
in order to enter the dream
the shedding of all skins
remember Orpheus lost Eurydice
because he had already lost
his connection with the other world
which of course continued to exist
but incommunicado out of sight
and more and more of the gods
failed to return to speak with him
the one who had been their favorite
the last one to watch them go 

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