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Love Song by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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"I'd like the step out of my heart
and be under the great sky.
I'd like to pray.
And surely one of all those stars
must still exist."

From "Lament" #rilke gets me. ? #poetry

Black Cat

A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place
your sight can knock on, echoing; but here
within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze

will be absorbed and utterly disappear:

just as a raving madman, when nothing else
can ease him, charges into his dark night
howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels

the rage being taken in and pacified ...

Full poem at https://m.poemhunter.com/poem/black-cat/ #litsypoetry365