Sunday, July 24, 2011

I Copied Time


Painting borrowed from Bing

I Copied Time

I copied time
I knew it was a fiction
but I could not suspend myself.

Moving back
or going forward,
I encountered
no obstacles.

I carried mountains,
Leaves fell inside me.

I surrounded
your beauty
with applause

and when
you wanted to go home
I swept aside
the infant dust.

Leonard Cohen

from BOOK OF LONGING.

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