“Every angel is terrifying.
And so I hold myself back and swallow the call-note of my dark sobbing.”
–Rainer Maria Rilke
What angel hides
within my words
I am afraid
I will succeed
that what I want
will come to me
happiness’
fragility
frightens me so
I can’t hold on
I cannot trust
my own desires
to keep me safe
from my success
(from a work in progress, “Arcana” AcePentacles, January 1, 2014)
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