What waits within

 

Potential

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken

I want to free what waits within me

so that what no one has dared to wish for

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may for once spring clear

without my contriving.

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If this is arrogant, God,forgive me,

but this is what I need to say.

May what I do flow from me like a river,

no forcing and no holding back,

the way it is with children.

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Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,

these deepening tides moving out, returning,

I will sing you as no one ever has,

streaming through widening channels

into the open sea.

- Rilke

 

Rikle’s Book of Hours is an awesome collection of love poems to God that will give you goosebumps. I wanted to share this one with you!