The future: time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast
a project, too large a morsel
for the heart's mouth.

Future, who won't wait for you?
Everyone is going there.
It suffices you to deepen
the absence that we are.

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Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
Poem: The Future

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Dec 19 2003
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