sometimes a man - rilke

sometimes a man stands up during supper
and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,
because of a church that stands somewhere
in the east.

and his children say blessings on him
as if he were dead.

and another man, who remains
inside his own house,
dies there, inside the dishes
and the glasses,
so that his children have to go far
out into the world toward that same church,
which he forgot.