"My Life is not this vertical hour" by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Uploaded by on Jun 2, 2011

My life is not this vertical hour
in which you find me in such haste.
I am a tree in front of my own background,
I am only but one of my many mouths,
and the one which is the first to close.

I am the silence between two sounds
that only with difficulty grow used to one another:
for the tone of Death also wishes to be heard—

But in the darkness of the interval
they make peace with one another, trembling. And the song remains beautiful.

from: The Book of Hours

Mein Leben ist nicht diese steile Stunde

Mein Leben ist nicht diese steile Stunde,
darin du mich so eilen siehst.
Ich bin ein Baum vor meinem Hintergrunde,
ich bin nur einer meiner vielen Munde
und jener, welcher sich am frühsten schließt.

Ich bin die Ruhe zwischen zweien Tönen,
die sich nur schlecht aneinander gewöhnen:
denn der Ton Tod will sich erhöhn—

Aber im dunklen Intervall versöhnen
sich beide zitternd. Und das Lied bleibt schön.

aus: Das Stundenbuch
(1899)

Artist/Composer: Gaelin McAllister Meyer, Heartsong Records
Source: Gaelin McAllister Meyer
Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
http://www.archive.org/details/gaelinSingsRainerMariaRilkePoem
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