When Rilke meets Dali & The Fusion of Time

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I can't keep up with the days. It gets dark quickly. Time is getting away from me. More lines, more challenges. But there is also more music. Sometimes I need to rush. Creativity has become something that I need to contain because that also helps me contain the pain. I am free. My eyes are still the same. They remind me of yours still. Maybe that is just a coincidence. I went to the Dali museum again, and what a mind trip that was. Sometimes I cry, but that's been more difficult. I wonder if I am just more resilient or just a jaded middle-aged woman. I can't keep up with time and the intensity of being. Being takes so much energy. Rilke once again speaks to my soul. 




I’ll Always Belong to Myself
Rainer Maria Rilke

I’ll always belong to myself
Even as many times as I’ll try to give myself away
And as many times as someone else will try and take it
I will always belong to myself and you’ll always belong to
yourself
Unions are not formed by giving yourself away but by
coming together

two minds
two hearts
two flames
two contributors
two architects
building their mad or sadly sane worlds together

I don’t want to be you and I don’t want you to be me

The beauty
The love

Come from our acceptance of each others’ souls

-Rainer Maria Rilke

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