Leonard Cohen's Poem: There is a Moment

Poem Title: There is a Moment. 

Narrated by Chad Fox. 

Reading Real Poetry

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There is a moment in every day when I kneel before the love i have for you. Then I remember that I am still that man. And i know that my life's work is to be that man, who leans over a white tablet humbled in his constant and signifying love for you. It is eight twenty-seven in the evening. Once again the thought of you has rescued me from the puzzle of my indeifference

and the hard wheel 

in the chest's center

becomes a soft wheel

God lies down next to his lamb

so the creature can

gather itself

His queen is massaged

by a thousand versions

of Her most devoted drone.

and there you are

smiling at someone else

in my vision of the lost kitchen

and that is the way

I finish my work

until it starts again.