back to Georg Trakl

“Encounter” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 18873 Nov 1914)
Translated from the German
The stranger on the way—we look at each other
And our tired eyes ask:
What have you done with your life?
Be silent! Be silent! Leave all laments!
Already it becomes cooler around us,
The clouds dissolve in the vastnesses.
I think we shall ask more no longer
And nobody will escort us to the night.