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Leonard Cohen reciting his poem This Is For You (part of)

This poem was published in Selected Poems 1956-68 This is for you it is my full heart it is the book I meant to read you when we were old Now I am a shadow I am restless as an empire You are the woman who released me I saw you watching the moon you did not hesitate to love me with it I saw you honouring the windflowers caught in the rocks you loved me with them On the smooth sand between pebbles and shoreline you welcomed me into the circle more than a guest All this happened in the truth of time in the truth of flesh I saw you with a child you brought me to his perfume and his visions without demand of blood On so many wooden tables adorned with food and candles a thousand sacraments which you carried in your basket I visited my clay I visited my birth until I became small enough and frightened enough to be born again I wanted you for your beauty you gave me more than yourself you shared your beauty this I only learned tonight as I recall the mirrors you walked away from after you had given them whatever they claimed for my initiation Now I am a shadow I long for the boundaries of my wandering and I move with the energy of your prayer and I move in the direction of your prayer for you are kneeling like a bouquet in a cave of bone behind my forehead and I move toward a love you have dreamed for me