Rainer Maria Rilke
To Meet and Be Met
The hour is striking
So close above me
So clear and sharp
That all my senses ring with it
I feel it now
There's a power in me
To grasp and give shape to my world
I know that nothing has ever been real
Without my beholding it
All becoming has needed me
My looking ripens things
And they come toward me
To meet and be met
To meet and be met