Day 12: Poetry Sunday

As heard today on Being, hosted by Krista Tippett on WBUR 90.9 FM.  I've never understood how to read poetry, but when I heard it read to me over the radio, it really spoke to me.

"Dear Darkening Ground"
by Rainer Maria Rilke; translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows

Dear darkening ground,
you've endured so patiently the walls we've built,
perhaps you'll give the cities one more hour

and grant the churches and cloisters two.
And those that labor—let their work
grip them another five hours, or seven,

before you become forest again, and water, and widening wilderness
in that hour of inconceivable terror
when you take back your name
from all things.

Just give me a little more time!
I want to love the things
as no one has thought to love them,
until they're worthy of you and real.

Book of Hours, I 61