Hey...just had a Scottish night out (aka at the pub), with all of the related effects (read: please forgive, in advance, any typos), and read this Rilke poem.  Thought I'd share it with the group:

 

 

 

IMAGINARY CAREER

 

At first a childhood, limitless and free

of any goals.  Ah sweet unconsciousness

Then sudden terror, schoolrooms, slavery

the plunge into temptation and deep loss.

 

Defiance.  The child bent becomes the bender,

inflicts on others what he once went through.

Loved, feared, rescuer, wrestler, victor,

he takes his vengeance, blow by blow.

 

And now in vast, cold, empty space, alone.

Yet hidden deep within the grown-up heart,

a longing for the first world, the ancient one...

 

Then, from His place of ambush, God leapt out.

 

 

 

What does the last line mean to you?  Curious to see how many people think it means what I think it means.

 

Cheers,

sæskwač