Autumn
Below is a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) to welcome the change of seasons.
From Wikipedia: “Considered one of the German language’s greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety – themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.”
Autumn
The leaves are falling, falling as from far,
as though above were withering farthest gardens,
they fall with a denying attitude.
And night by night, down into solitude,
the heavy earth falls far from every star.
We are all falling. This hand’s falling too –
all have this falling-sickness none withstands.
And yet there’s One whose gently-holding hands
this universal falling can’t fall through.
