Solace in Silence

"If only everything were completely quiet,
if the random and the approximate, and
the laughter next door would just fall silent,
if only the noises my own senses make
didn't distract me so much-

Then, in a single, thousandfold idea,
I could reach as far as your boundaries
and possess you (just for the space of a smile)
and give you away to all of life
like gratitude."

-R.M. Rilke The Book of Hours