THE PANTHER
His vision, from the constantly passing
bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot
hold
anything else. It seems to him there
are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no
world.
As he paces in cramped circles, over and
over,
the movement of his powerful soft
strides
is like a ritual dance around a
centre
in which a mighty will stands
paralyzed
Only at times, the curtain of the
pupils
lifts, quietly -
An
image
enters
in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested
muscles,
plunges into the heart and is
gone.
From The Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke,
edited and translated by Stephen Michell
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