The Only Poem

by Leonard Cohen

This is the only poem
I can read
I am the only one
can write it
I didn’t kill myself
when things went wrong
I didn’t turn
to drugs or teaching
I tried to sleep
but when I couldn’t sleep
I learned to write
I learned to write
what might be read
on nights like this
by one like me

Here’s a song for you — in the introduction of this live performance of Suzanne Leonard Cohen says something so incredibly profound and compassionate — this is what made me first fall in love with him.

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