today's inspiration: rilke

Interior Portrait

You don't survive in me
because of memories;
nor are you mine because
of a lovely longing's strength.

What does make you present
is the ardent detour
that a slow tenderness
traces in my blood.

I do not need
to see you appear;
being born sufficed for me
to lose you a little less.

--Rainer Maria Rilke
(Translated by A. Poulin)

The poem I carry with me these days. Rilke speaks to my heart, always.