I Am, O Anxious One
I Am, O Anxious One - meaning Summary
Answer to Anxious Yearning
The speaker addresses an "Anxious One," insisting on their steady presence as the addressee's inner life—feelings that take wing, a silent soul rising like a prayer. The poem frames speaker and addressee as mutual facets: when the other dreams the speaker is that dream, when the other seeks wakefulness the speaker is the wish. Ultimately the speaker transcends personal longing, becoming a distant, luminous presence above Time.
Read Complete AnalysesI am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice surging forth with all my earthly feelings? They yearn so high, that they have sprouted wings and whitely fly in circles round your face. My soul, dressed in silence, rises up and stands alone before you: can't you see? don't you know that my prayer is growing ripe upon your vision as upon a tree? If you are the dreamer, I am what you dream. But when you want to wake, I am your wish, and I grow strong with all magnificence and turn myself into a star's vast silence above the strange and distant city, Time.
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