Rainer Maria Rilke - d**h Experienced lyrics

We know nothing of this going hence that so excludes us. We have no grounds for showing d**h amazement and love or hatred, since it wears the age-old mask of tragedy that hopelessly contorts it. The world is full of roles--which we still act. As long as we keep striving for acclaim, d**h also plays its part--though always badly. But when you went, a streak of reality broke in upon the stage through that fissure where you'd left: green of real green, real sunshine, real forest. We go on acting. Fearful and reciting things difficult to learn and now and then inventing gestures; but your existence, withdrawn from us and taken from our play, sometimes can come over us, like a knowledge of that reality settling in, so that for a time we act life transported, not thinking of applause.