Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Love Song / Rilke

How can I keep my soul in me, so that 
it doesn't touch your soul? 
How can I raise it high enough, 
past you, to other things? 
I would like to shelter it, 
among remote lost objects, 
in some dark and silent place 
that doesn't resonate when your depths resound. 

Yet everything that touches us, 
me and you,takes us together 
like a violin's bow, which draws 
one voice out of two separate strings. 
Upon what instrument are we two spanned? 
And what musician holds us in his hand? 
Oh sweetest song.