The Wait

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

It is life in slow motion, it's the heart in reverse, it's a hope-and-a-half: too much and too little at once.

It's a train that suddenly stops with no station around, and we can hear the cricket, and, leaning out the carriage

door, we vainly contemplate a wind we feel that stirs the blooming meadows, the meadows made imaginary by this stop.

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