Unending one, you’ve shown myself to me. <br /> <br />In the place you wrote into being <br />where the image of God made Man <br />and the image of Man made God <br />meet – there, in that friendly place <br /> <br />where such daunting names quite disappear, <br />where the eternal becomes practical <br />and the Word is heard as if I spoke it, <br />and myself is every self, <br /> <br />and I am free of all preconceptions, <br />neither Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu – <br />the place where all may be discussed, <br />where all may be heard, <br /> <br />where two voices become one certainty, <br />where unicorns may be seen, <br />where there are no secrets, <br />where poetry arises <br /> <br />in that place <br />you’ve shown myself to me.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0106-to-rilke/
