[Thespiritexpress] Leonard Cohen's poem

[Toni Bernbaum]

whooo….eee……wish Leonard was alive to read your words! 

> On Apr 26, 2023, at 2:52 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> To Ed Baldinger
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> What is the title of Cohen’s song you read yesterday?
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> Here is my answer to him:
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> Plea to Leonard Cohen
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> Hey Cohen,
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> you take us on a journey we all dread,
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> the journey of the deads
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> uncovering
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> all of our darkest darkness, 
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> in the midst of all the shards
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> of  all the masks
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> we projected,
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> having to face
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> all the fabricated pictures of ourselves
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> we sent friends and family
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> now blown apart
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> by the blast
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> that exposes
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> all the pretense
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> the self-glorification
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> the self-congratulation. . .
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> Yes Leonard
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> you do expose our blackest archetypal passions
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> hidden and silent or expressed,
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> passions with the most colorful disguises though
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> ––costumes of feathers, flowers, fluff and beads,
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> those passions that created the world,
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> that were there since the very the beginning,
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> the archetypes we were formed after
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> and that we never really were able to escape,
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> passions expressed in dramas, sagas or tragedies,
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> shameless lusts, uncontrolled appetites, frenzied rages.  . .
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> It is a real spiritual cleansing you take us through
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> Leonard my friend,
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> excruciating,
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> agonizing, 
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> fearful
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> certainly a useful exposure
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> but please, 
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> allow redemption to take place,
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> let us reach the other side purified,
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> free of sins,
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> free of failure,
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> free of mistakes,
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> permit us to start again
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> new, opened, trusting and accepting
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> fearless,
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> forgiven,
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> forgiving
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> radiant and ready to face the light!
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> Please Leonard
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> let us get there!_______________________________________________
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