[Thespiritexpress] Leonard Cohen's poem

[Riantee Rand]

To Ed Baldinger

What is the title of Cohen’s song you read yesterday?

Here is my answer to him:

 

Plea to Leonard Cohen

 

Hey Cohen,

you take us on a journey we all dread,

the journey of the deads

uncovering

all of our darkest darkness, 

in the midst of all the shards

of  all the masks

we projected,

having to face

all the fabricated pictures of ourselves

we sent friends and family

now blown apart

by the blast

that exposes

all the pretense

the self-glorification

the self-congratulation. . .

 

Yes Leonard

you do expose our blackest archetypal passions

hidden and silent or expressed,

passions with the most colorful disguises though

––costumes of feathers, flowers, fluff and beads,

those passions that created the world,

that were there since the very the beginning,

the archetypes we were formed after

and that we never really were able to escape,

passions expressed in dramas, sagas or tragedies,

shameless lusts, uncontrolled appetites, frenzied rages.  . .

 

It is a real spiritual cleansing you take us through

Leonard my friend,

excruciating,

agonizing, 

fearful

certainly a useful exposure

but please, 

allow redemption to take place,

let us reach the other side purified,

free of sins,

free of failure,

free of mistakes,

permit us to start again

new, opened, trusting and accepting

fearless,

forgiven,

forgiving

radiant and ready to face the light!

 

Please Leonard

let us get there!
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