May What I Do Flow From Me Like a River

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.I want to free what awaits within meSo that what no one has dared to wish forMay for once spring clearWithout my contriving.If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,But this is what I need to say.May what I do flow from me like a river,No forcing and no holding back,The way it is with children.Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,These deepening tides moving out, returning,I will sing you as no one ever has,Streaming through widening channelsInto the open sea.

- Rainer Maria Rilke