“Partingâ€
Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. By CohnHow long I’ve known what parting means, how well
I know it still, invincible and cruel.
A dreadful thing, a thing which once more shows
what we hold dear, which it at once destroys.How vulnerable I was, but then I learned
that those who cried to me yet let me go
would leave me all alone while they remained:
like shapes of women pale and far awaywaving good-byes no longer meant for me,
their gestures faint, no longer signifying,
mere objects in the distance, fluttering-
a cuckoo flying from a damson-tree.
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