Monday, February 14, 2011

To Darkness

The Church at Auvers, by Vincent van Gogh

You, darkness, of whom I am born—

I love you more than the flame
that limits the world
to the circle it illumines
and excludes all the rest.

But the dark embraces everything:
shapes and shadows, creatures and me,
people, nations—just as they are.

From the Book of Hours I, 11

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