LOVE ITSELF   FOR L.W.
 
 
  
The song Love Itself on  
Ten New Songs is based on this poem.
 
 
  
The light came through the window now 
straight from the sun above,  
and so inside my little room  
there plunged the rays of Love.  
 
In streams of light I clearly saw  
the dust you seldom see,  
the dust the Nameless makes to speak  
a Name for one like me.  
 
And all mixed up with sunlight now 
the flecks did float and dance  
and I was tumbled up with them  
in formless circumstance.  
 
I'll try to say a little more:  
this Love went on and on  
until it reached an open door -  
Then Love itself was gone.  
  
The self-same moment words were seen  
from every window frame,  
but there was nothing left between  
the Nameless and the Name. 
  
 
 
  
  
Copyright © by Leonard Cohen. Mt Baldy, 1997-2001.  
Reprinted with permission. Any other use forbidden.
  
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