TO A YOUNG  NUN 
 
 
  
This undemanding love  
that our staggered births  
have purchased for us --  
You in your generation,  
I in mine.  
I am not the one  
you are looking for.  
You are not the one  
I've stopped looking for.  
How sweetly time  
disposes of us  
as we go arm in arm  
over the Bridge of Details:  
Your turn to chop.  
My turn to cook.  
Your turn to die for love.  
My turn to resurrect.  
 
  
 
  
Copyright © by Leonard Cohen, Albuquerque, 1997. 
Reprinted with permission. Any other use forbidden.
  
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