I have great faith in all things not yet spoken. <br />I want my deepest pious feelings freed. <br />What no one yet has dared to risk and warrant <br />will be for me a challenge I must meet. <br /> <br />If this presumptious seems, God, may I be forgiven. <br />For what I want to say to you is this: <br />my efforts shall be like a driving force, <br />quite without anger, without timidness <br />as little children show their love for you. <br /> <br />With these outflowing, river-like, with deltas <br />that spread like arms to reach the open sea, <br />with the recurrent tides that never cease <br />will I acknowledge you, will I proclaim you <br />as no one ever has before. <br /> <br />And if this should be arrogance, so let me <br />arrogant be to justify my prayer <br />that stands so serious and so alone <br />before your forehead, circled by the clouds.<br /><br />Rainer Maria Rilke<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dedication-2/
