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This is so good...reading it aloud to myself I found myself fairly
shouting out Yes! REDEMPTION for us all..<br><br>
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At 02:52 PM 4/26/2023, you wrote:<br><br>
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To Ed Baldinger<br><br>
What is the title of Cohen’s song you read yesterday?<br><br>
Here is my answer to him:<br><br>
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Plea to Leonard Cohen<br><br>
<br><br>
Hey Cohen, <br><br>
you take us on a journey we all dread,<br><br>
the journey of the deads<br><br>
uncovering <br><br>
all of our darkest darkness, <br><br>
in the midst of all the shards<br><br>
of all the masks <br><br>
we projected,<br><br>
having to face <br><br>
all the fabricated pictures of ourselves<br><br>
we sent friends and family<br><br>
now blown apart<br><br>
by the blast<br><br>
that exposes<br><br>
all the pretense <br><br>
the self-glorification<br><br>
the self-congratulation. . .<br><br>
<br><br>
Yes Leonard<br><br>
you do expose our blackest archetypal passions<br><br>
hidden and silent or expressed,<br><br>
passions with the most colorful disguises though<br><br>
––costumes of feathers, flowers, fluff and beads, s,
<br><br>
those passions that created the world,<br><br>
that were there since the very the beginning,<br><br>
the archetypes we were formed after<br><br>
and that we never really were able to escape,<br><br>
passions expressed in dramas, sagas or tragedies,<br><br>
shameless lusts, uncontrolled appetites, frenzied rages. .
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<br><br>
It is a real spiritual cleansing you take us through <br><br>
Leonard my friend,<br><br>
excruciating, <br><br>
agonizing, <br><br>
fearful<br><br>
certainly a useful exposure <br><br>
but please, <br><br>
allow redemption to take place,<br><br>
let us reach the other side purified,<br><br>
free of sins, <br><br>
free of failure, <br><br>
free of mistakes, <br><br>
permit us to start again <br><br>
new, opened, trusting and accepting<br><br>
fearless, <br><br>
forgiven, <br><br>
forgiving<br><br>
radiant and ready to face the light!<br><br>
<br><br>
Please Leonard<br>
let us get there! <br>
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