For we are a conversation, and we listen
To one another, but soon we’ll be song.
Celebration of Peace by Friedrich Hölderlin
now in the darkness;
Even if the song does not sound delightful,
It has freed me from fear.
Die Heimkehr I. by Heinrich Heine
that drives you,
Nothing more,
that holds you.
Up the hill
and keep singing inside
Till the voice
picks you up
and takes you away.
Happiness by Peter Härtling
that stretch across things.
I may not be able to accomplish the last one,
but I will try.
I circle around God, around the ancient tower,
and I circle for millennia;
and I do not yet know: am I a hawk, a storm
or a great song.
By Rainer Maria Rilke
to sit and be with someone.
I want to cradle you and sing to you
and accompany you asleep and awake.
By Rainer Marie Rilke
