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The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss - 9. During the night
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In einer Nacht
In einer Nacht hast du zu mir gesagt,
du wärst ein Blatt, das auf mir liegt und will,
daß es in seiner Erde Wurzeln treibt.
Du warst sehr still
und sahst zum Fenster in die Nacht hinaus
und hast gewartet, wo das Wunder bleibt,
das uns vereinen würde, wie noch keines je
Menschen verband, die im Sehnen vergingen.
Ich schwieg von allen wissenden Dingen
und wartete mit dir. Da war es jäh,
als ob unsere Seelen dem Leib entrissen
aufschlugen wie Flammen –
und dann zusammen
– bis durch der wilden Verwirrung roten
blühenden Schein die Erlösung drang –
in einer Fackel zum Himmel lohten.
Du sprachst – ich sah dein entrücktes Gesicht –
„Nun sind wir eins geworden wie das Licht.“ [i]
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During the Night
During the night you said you were a leaf
that could lie atop me and only wish
to root itself deep within my soil.
You were very still,
looking out the window into the night,
waiting for where the miracle lingers
to join people who die together in longing
and connect us like no two ever before.
I kept my thoughts quiet and to myself,
waiting for you. When all of a sudden,
as if our spirits were torn from these two bodies,
they burst into flames –
we were united
– while amid rioting confusion’s red
the blooming glow of redemption broke through –
blazing up into heaven like a torch.
You spoke as I beheld your rapturous face –
“We’re now indivisible, like the light.”
[i] “In einer Nacht” Toni Schwabe, printed in Volume IV-V of Die Buecherei Maiandros magazine (Berlin 1913), p. 56
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064479221&seq=274
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