A Walk
My eyes already touch the sunny hill,
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
It has its inner light even from a distance-
And changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which hardly sensing it,
we already are;
A gesture waves us on, answering our own
wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
— Rainer Marie Rilke
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