Slowly evening takes on the garments held for it by a line of ancient trees. You look, and the world recedes from you. Part of it moves heavenward, the rest falls away.
And you are left, belonging to neither fully, not quite so dark as the silent house, not quite so sure of eternity as that shining now in the night sky, a point of light. You are left, for reasons you can't explain, with a life that is anxious and huge, so that, at times confined, at times expanding,
it becomes in you now stone, now star.
Book of Images
Rilke
Because at times we are confined and at times expanding,
now stone, now star.
Photos from our next door neighbors' balcony two nights ago
(thanks Lucia).
Poetry from "A Year With Rilke" kindly hosted by Ruth and Lorenzo.
