Entrance

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: step out when night is near,
out of your room where everything is sure;
your house is now infinity’s frontier:
whoever you are.
With eyes exhausted by the constant sight
of boundaries already too well-known,
you slowly lift a tree into the night
and fix it in the heavens: black, alone.
And you have made the world. And it is vast
And like a word that ripens silently
And when your will has grasped its sense at last,
Your eyes will gently shut and set it free.