I have faith in nights

 

Christmas in Longwood Gardens

So many places look enchanted with Christmas lights shining in the darkness.

Here's a haunting poem by Rilke:

"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 energy

is moving near me.

I have faith in nights."

-  Rainer Maria Rilke, On Darkness

 

in West Chester

in Gettysburg

in Cape May