longest night

[thyrsomaniac]

You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything;
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them!-
powers and people-
and it is possible a great presence
is moving near me.
I have faith in nights.
-  Rainer Maria Rilke