Monday, September 05, 2022

Just As The Winged Energy of Delight


Just as the winged energy of delight
carried you over many chasms early on,
now raise the daringly imagined arch
 holding up the astounding bridges.

Miracle doesn’t lie only in the amazing
living through and defeat of danger;
miracles become miracles in the clear
 achievement that is earned.

 To work with things is not hubris
when building the association beyond words; 
denser and denser the pattern becomes—
being carried along is not enough. 

Take your well-disciplined strengths
 and stretch them between two
 opposing poles. Because inside human beings
 is where God learns. 

 --Rainer Maria Rilke 
 translated by Robert Bly