You, Darkness - Ranier Maria Rilke

You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you

But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animal and myself,
how easily it gathers them!--
powers and people--

and it is posssible a great energy
is moving near me.

I have faith in nights

Ranier Maria Rilke 

• From --- Arabesque