Some Leonard Cohen song and a tale
No cure for love.
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
Sometime looking back. The bad days don’t seem so bad.
No cure for Love.
In the tar pits of blasphemy and disappointment.
I tried to forget a woman’s face and green eyes.
Tried to forget those long beautiful and soft legs.
I tried to erode the memory of her beautiful body.
Leonard Cohen is playing “No cure for love.”
I sat alone in the back of a Texas dance hall.
The restrains of grief and my frigid heart rendered me
Pain become an pleasure.
Allowing a trace of emotion to appear rarely.
I was filled with the cancer of disappointment.
Left hopeless.
Now the twilight deepen.
I sat on the sideline of hopelessness.
Waiting for one damn reason to keep going forward.
A sensuous and beautiful lady whispered.
Sweet and spiritual words.
“My Poet.
Rest with me my love.
Let’s find a secret hostel.
Where two can unite against the world.”
Her perfume intoxicated my senses.
My emotions and desires begin to maneuver.
Her sweet smell of lilies began to awake
my impoverished heart.
She took me to the dance floor.
We do a Texas two-step.
Slow and easy.
Her sweet voice whispers to me.
“I’m here.
I have tasted pain.
Swam in the misery of disappointment.”
“Tonight we must redeem our heart and soul.”
She gave me a soft gentle kiss.
Laid her head onto my chest.
She looked into my eyes.
Her blue eyes kind and gentle.
Even the un-lucky can find love.
She told me.
“We must create a bridge.
Based on the real things that are important.
Make only true promises.
We expect to accomplish.”
We sat by the Austin river.
The Texas sun was appearing from the east.
A broken man and a lady who lost her wings.
Today we begin a new dance.
In the paradise of love and emotion.
The sweet woman told me.
“We must live through hell.
To know love.”
I brought her close.
I whispered “Thank you.”
I told her “love takes time.”
I kissed her sweet lips.
Brought her close to me.
I whispered.
“We must strive to be kind and
Maybe the splendor of love.
Will come back.”
“Into our heart and soul? ”
Coyote
1991
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Thank you Ann for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
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I do like Leonard Cohen. The song strikes a chord and so does the poem…..
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Cohen,oneof the greats. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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Leonard Cohen is so positive in his songs even if he sings about sad or bad topics.
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Cohen had a great life. I saw him live in Germany twice. In 1977 and in 1978. He knows how to entetain a group.
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That must have been great. I never saw him life I got his CDs as a present once and I listen to it often it is one of the few music CDs one does not get bored by/ tired of.
So he was in Germany, too.
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He was everywhere. The Germans loved him then and more today.
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I think it’s the combination of voice and emotional attraction of the verse and music, what do you think?
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He was special. His verse was a reminder for us all. Love and lost. War and peace. Struggle and the good days. All of us had lived and he voiced these emotions in his words. He had a large band. The sound behind the song was perfect also.
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The sound catches. It is interesting how much he stands for a certain time and spirit while at the same time his music also gets to the young.
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I agree.
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