cerusee: a white redheaded girl in a classroom sitting by the window chewing on a pencil and looking bored (I have loved the stars too fondly)
cerusee ([personal profile] cerusee) wrote2008-10-12 10:57 pm

more rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke


Autumn

The leaves are falling, falling as from far,
as though above were withering farthest gardens;
they fall with a denying attitude.

And night by night, down into solitude,
the heavy earth falls from every star.

We are all falling. The hand's falling too--
all have this falling-sickness none withstands.

And yet there's One whose gently-holding hands
this universal falling can't fall through.