Everything is far
and long gone by.
I think that the star
glittering above me
has been dead for a million years.
I think there were tears
in the car I heard pass
and something terrible was said.
A clock has stopped striking in the house
across the road...
When did it start?...
I would like to step out of my heart
an go walking beneath the enormous sky.
I would like to pray.
And surely of all the stars that perished
long ago,
one still exists.
I think that I know
which one it is--
which one, at the end of its beam in the sky,
stands like a white city...
Lament
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Poem topics: car, city, heart, house, star, pray, white, terrible, start, clock, step, walking, beneath, sky, long, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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