Dear Darkening Ground - Andrea Prevedelli

A poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Vandana Shiva, collectively animated by @the.impossible.future & presented by Daniel Wahl. Dear darkening ground, you’ve endured so patiently the walls we’ve built, please give the cities one more hour and grant the churches and cloisters two, And those that labor — maybe you’ll let their work grip them for another five hours, or seven before you become forest again, and water, and widening wilderness, in that hour of inconceivable terror when you take