loneliness

Being apart and lonely is like rain.

It climbs towards evening from the ocean plains;

from flat places, rolling and remote,

it climbs to heaven, which is its old abode.

And only when leaving heaven drops upon the city.

It rains down on us in those twittering hours

when the streets turn their faces to the dawn,

and when two bodies who have found nothing,

dissapointed and depressed, roll over;

and when two people who despise eachother

have to sleep together in one bed-

that is when loneliness receives the rivers...

Rainer Maria Rilke