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

[tom-sizemore.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[con-grazia.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. I love him, and actually have this poem in a first edition hardcover of his poetry book. No one is quite like Leonard Cohen.

[irishpecas14.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for posting this... it's amazing.

[keonaa.livejournal.com]

It is beautiful, thank you fo sharing.