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22 November 2012

"Lament," Rainer Maria Rilke


I would like to walk
out of my heart
under the wide sky.
I would like to pray.
One of these stars
must still exist.
I believe I know
which one
still lasts
and stands
and stands like a city, white
in the sky at the end of the beam of light….

– Rilke

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