<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">All My News<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.<br class="">I was not meant<br class="">to be renown<br class="">in the present<br class="">market town,</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">but in the future<br class="">some may find<br class="">what might be used<br class="">to change a mind</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from slaughter<br class="">in the name of peace<br class="">to honouring<br class="">complexities,</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and thus influence<br class="">politics<br class="">with deeper balance<br class="">deeper checks.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2.<br class="">Look on low<br class="">look on high,<br class="">see with Love’s<br class="">inhuman eye</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not only charge<br class="">of opposites<br class="">(the broken heart<br class="">the healing fix),</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">but what engenders<br class="">every turn—<br class="">the leader on her <br class="">knees will learn.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And he who’s sick<br class="">with heavy thought<br class="">will cherish it<br class="">and fold his cot.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3.<br class="">Do not decode<br class="">these cries of mine—<br class="">They are the road,<br class="">and not the sign.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nor deconstruct<br class="">my drugless high—<br class="">I’m sober but<br class="">I like to fly.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The quickened with<br class="">my open talk,<br class="">you need not pick<br class="">the ancient lock.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.<br class="">Mystery now,<br class="">and now Revealed<br class="">I bend to Thee<br class="">my will to yield,</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and whisper here <br class="">my gratitude<br class="">for every tear<br class="">of restless mood;</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who lets me breach<br class="">the walls of time<br class="">so I could touch<br class="">the ones to come</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with wisdom that<br class="">my parents spoke<br class="">(established on an<br class="">anecdote),</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and shorthand of<br class="">the unborn mind<br class="">with graceful effort<br class="">all combined.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.<br class="">Undeciphered<br class="">let my song<br class="">rewire circuits<br class="">wired wrong,</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(73, 59, 37); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and with my jingle<br class="">in your brain,<br class="">allow the Bridge<br class="">to arch again.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Leonard Cohen</div></body></html>