Ask stuff

ask/content/terribly-tragic.tex

@@ -25,3 +25,26 @@ There are the families we left behind, and if we are not careful, they are gone
 Why did Rareș not join his sibling when the years began to take their toll? What life did he live so worthy of death? Did he set a headstone for Ioan when ey uploaded to fund his education? Did he mourn when his sibling did not write him as frequently as he would have liked?
 
 It is all so terribly tragic, but I do \emph{not} pity them.
+
+\clearpage
+
+\subsection*{Dear The Wheat And Rye Under The Stars}
+
+\begin{verse}
+Of course it is strange to inhabit the Earth no longer,\\
+To follow no longer the customs so newly acquired,\\
+To invest no longer with future humanity\\
+Such promising things as roses,\\
+\ldots\\
+And being dead is full of the labor of catching up,\\
+As one gradually acquired a sense of eternity.—\\
+But the living always make the mistake of too sharp a distinction.\\
+\ldots\\
+In the end, they need us no longer, those taken in youth.\\
+One gradually weans oneself from the earthly\ldots\\
+\ldots{} But we,\\
+Who need such great mysteries, for whom out of grief\\
+So often comes blessed improvement—: \emph{could} we be without them?
+\end{verse}
+
+— Rainer Maria Rilke