Poem of the Month: April 2009

You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
 
So many live on and want nothing
and are raised to the rank of prince
by the slippery ease of their light judgments.
 
But what you love to see are faces
that so work and feel thirst . . .
 
You have not grown old, and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

Journal prompts:

• What do you want? How do you feel about wanting it?
  
  
• Who in your life has been "raised to the rank of prince/ by the slippery ease of their light judgments"? Does this challenge one or more of your core values? If so, how?
  
  
• What is the "secret" that life is "calmly giv(ing) out" to you, in this stage of your life?