I believe in all that has never been spoken.
I want to free whatever waits within me
so that which no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
I want to mirror your immensity
I want to unfold.
Let no place in me hold itself closed,
for where I am closed, I am false.
I want to stay clear in your sight.
If this is arrogant, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
These deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
Streaming through widening channels,
Into the open sea.
-Ranier Maria Rilke