Leonard Cohen has become one of my favorite modern poets. Don't get me wrong, I am no poet or literary buff. It is a deep down desire of mine...but until that day truly comes, I read sparingly from a few great poets deciphering what their artistic words and phrases mean.
Let Cohen's words here create some thought in you today.
"Sit Down, Master"
Sit down, master, on this rude chair of praises, and rule my nervous heart with your great decrees of freedom. Out of time you have taken me to do my daily task. Out of mist and dust you have fashioned me to know the numberless worlds between the crown and the kingdom. In utter defeat I came to you and you received me with a sweetness I had not dared to remember. Tonight I come to you again, soiled by strategies and trapped in the loneliness of my tiny domain. Establish your law in this walled place. Let nine men come to lift me into their prayer so that I may whisper with them: Blessed be the name of the glory of the kingdom forever and forever.
(C) Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc.
