You, Darkness
by Ranier Maria Rilke – a Bohemian-Austrian poet

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, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! –

powers and people-

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

I have faith in nights.