Please, Accept These Few Words

Life Preservers - Vol. 00.69

Please, Accept These Few Words

Please, accept these few words,
I think of you often.
Though, I often doubt
what’s to come of them.
Is there no point in
what I could say,
to bring your outer and inner lives
Into harmony?
Or,
is what I have already said,
The things that oppress you?

Source Material: Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Letters To A Young Poet.” Translated by Stephen Mitchell, The Modern Library, 1984, pp. 100 - 2020