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You Darkness
~~Ranier Maria Rilke

You darkness, that I come from,

I love you more than all the fires

that fence in the world,

for the fire makes

a cicrle of light for everyone,

and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everyting:

shapes and fires, animals and myself,

how easily it gathers them!--

powers and people!--

and it is possible a great energy

is moving near me.

I have faith in nights.

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