![Wenn ich gewachsen wäre irgendwo [...] Dort hätte ich gewagt dich zu vergeuden, du grenzenlose Gegenwart. - Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Stundenbuch (If I had grown up some other place...)](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wlQ7CEbaL-U/UjvHyKJWFAI/AAAAAAAAGxQ/7BH1fKXZym0qfFBU-SbLrhDGZ6atdqloQCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/2013.09.20%2BDort%2Bha%25CC%2588tte%2Bich%2Bgewagt%2Bdich%2Bzu%2Bvergeuden.jpg "Wenn ich gewachsen wäre irgendwo [...] Dort hätte ich gewagt dich zu vergeuden, du grenzenlose Gegenwart. - Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Stundenbuch (If I had grown up some other place...)")
If I had grown up some other place,
with shorter hours and easier days,
I would have invented a feast for you,
and my hands wouldn't hold you as they sometimes do,
so anxiously and uncouth.
There I would have dared to squander you,
you limitless present tense.