Poetry Friday

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You mustn’t be frightened
if a sadness
rises in front of you,
larger than any you have ever seen;
if an anxiety
like light and cloud-shadows,
moves over your hands and over
everything you do.
You must realize that something is
happening to you,
that life has not forgotten you,
that it holds you in its hand
and will not let you fall.

Rainer Maria Rilke