All My News - Leonard Cohen

[Larry Robinson]

All My News

1.
I was not meant
to be renown
in the present
market town,

but in the future
some may find
what might be used
to change a mind

from slaughter
in the name of peace
to honouring
complexities,

and thus influence
politics
with deeper balance
deeper checks.

2.
Look on low
look on high,
see with Love’s
inhuman eye

not only charge
of opposites
(the broken heart
the healing fix),

but what engenders
every turn—
the leader on her 
knees will learn.

And he who’s sick
with heavy thought
will cherish it
and fold his cot.

3.
Do not decode
these cries of mine—
They are the road,
and not the sign.

Nor deconstruct
my drugless high—
I’m sober but
I like to fly.

The quickened with
my open talk,
you need not pick
the ancient lock.

4.
Mystery now,
and now Revealed
I bend to Thee
my will to yield,

and whisper here 
my gratitude
for every tear
of restless mood;

Who lets me breach
the walls of time
so I could touch
the ones to come

with wisdom that
my parents spoke
(established on an
anecdote),

and shorthand of
the unborn mind
with graceful effort
all combined.

5.
Undeciphered
let my song
rewire circuits
wired wrong,

and with my jingle
in your brain,
allow the Bridge
to arch again.


	- Leonard Cohen
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