Death ExperIence
We know nothing of this going away, that
shares nothing with us. We have no reason,
whether astonishment and love or hate,
to display Death, whom a fantastic mask
shares nothing with us. We have no reason,
whether astonishment and love or hate,
to display Death, whom a fantastic mask
of tragic lament astonishingly disfigures.
Now the world is still full of roles which we play
as long as we make sure, that, like it or not,
Death plays, too, although he does not please us...
Now the world is still full of roles which we play
as long as we make sure, that, like it or not,
Death plays, too, although he does not please us...
...
a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
