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Journal johndiii's Journal: [Beloved] Lament (Rilke) 2

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All things in their time, beloved...

        Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely,
        your path struggles on through incomprehensible
        mankind. All the more futile perhaps
        for keeping to its direction,
        keeping on toward the future,
        toward what has been lost.

        Once. You lamented? What was it? A fallen berry
        of jubilation, unripe.
        But now the whole tree of my jubilation
        is breaking, in the storm it is breaking, my slow
        tree of joy.
        Loveliest in my invisible
        landscape, you that made me more known
        to the invisible angels.

                                        -- Rainer Maria Rilke
                                        (Translated by Stephen Mitchell)
...as my lament is giving way to gladness, I would do for thee as thou hast done for me. I cannot restore what is lost, but... there is yet light in thy world. On the landscape of my heart, thy light is indeed the loveliest.

For thee, Koria.

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