Travel - Leonard Cohen

[aimlesswanderer.livejournal.com]

TRAVEL

    Loving you, flesh to flesh, I often thought
    Of travelling penniless to some mud throne
    Where a master might instruct me how to plot
    My life away from pain, to love alone
    In the bruiseless embrace of stone and lake.

    Lost in the fields of your hair I was never lost
    Enough to lose a way I had to take;
    Breathless beside your body I could not exhaust
    The will that forbid me contract, vow,
    Or promise, and often while you slept
    I looked in awe beyond your beauty.

    Now I know why many men have stopped and wept
    Halfway between the loves they leave and seek,
    And wondered if travel leads them anywhere -
    Horizons keep the soft line of your cheek,
    The windy sky's a locket for your hair.

      --Leonard Cohen

Comments

[aimlesswanderer.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was an amazing post. Unbelievable having someone like your Aunt in your immediate family.

I have all the books by Cohen, including the Spice Box. I loved this poem the moment I read it. Thank you.

./w

[con-grazia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think if you read my next entry, maybe - can't quite remember - she talks a bit more about it and also about meeting Christopher Plummer when he was a young man.

I'll tell you - my aunt is such an amazing woman, those guys should be honored that THEY met HER! She's phenomenal. :)