You Alone Are Real to Me
To Rainer Maria Rilke……
Like a Falcon swiftly passing on the way to a kill,
Your beauty surprised me;
As if the dream I embraced,
Embraced all I could be.
Yes, only you, alone, are real to me.
As the Dolphin rises and, in huff joy,
Flays the air with its rising;
And I , too, leap like freed seed.
Oh however hard I try to capture you, you
Who, alone are only real to me.
The cuffed pistal with the rosy splay,
I see in my garden everyday;
The heel marks of some creatures path,
Reminding me of your shadow, as in a blanched photograph:
Still, you alone are real to me.
Only you take my hope away, each time you carelessly pass,
You soar long enough to say, I am you love but beauty passes,
And you can only say good bye.
Above you I will soar your souls aloneness, and
You will never curse my cruelty.
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