Widening Circles - by Rilke

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I've been circling for thousands of years
and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

Book of Hours, I 2
(translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows)

Yahia Lababidi, Egyptian poet, celebrates the power of poetry to bring us closer to the Divine:
http://www.onbeing.org/blog/yahia-lababidi-in-embracing-we-let-go/8705

"Widening Circles" by Rainer Maria Rilke - read by Yahia Lababidi

Egyptian-American author of 11 critically-acclaimed books.  Lababidi's latest are: "Quarantine Notes" short meditations composed during our global pandemic & "Learning to Pray" a collection of his spiritual poems & aphorisms.

Amazon Author Page:  https://www.amazon.com/author/yahialababidi