Everything Was Temporary

.rhymes with contemporary.

Wayward once now descending above

Old boat sailing in the name of timeless love

Coming forever natural

In old knowledge swept northward

Into the speechless one

Atop the luminous mountain

Leaving low lands for memorium

Stone marked and forever temporary

Only lasting in flesh memory 

An audible memory

In no need of gods

A virtue

Left for us in silence

In a beautiful library

For us everyone of us

To continue our all

Dancing until the end of all

Into forever

Waiting for things

Forgotten in time

When all becomes silent

In nothing left to be forgotten

Author's Note

Reviews

[ajelly]

"It is a beautiful thing for us to be so deeply interested in each other. You have to write about something. Women stand for the objective world for a man, and they stand for the thing that you're not. And that's what you always reach for in a song." [and poetry is a song on paper . . .]

Leonard Cohen, 1979

[Davidgeo]

Nice quote. Usually I tell people who don't leave their own words to f**k off but, this was quite relevant and made me think back to why I wrote what I wrote in the first place. You have a wonderful profile name by the way.

[Jenny Leigh]

Another good poem. Keep up the good work.

[Davidgeo]

"keep up the good work" Keep off the vacuous comments.

[Davidgeo]

Sorry for that... it was kinda mean. I'm in a salty mood. Please forgive me.

[Jenny Leigh]

It's ok. Everyone has bad moods. All is forgiven.

[KWP]

a most timely and beautiful tribute .. he will be with us, flowing through us, buzzing his own special energy ... forever ... Thank you for writing this :) XXX

[Davidgeo]

Thank you for reading it. Leonard Cohen's work will be around long after you and I are dead, I'm glad to have heard him live in my lifetime. He was/is one of the better artist to be admired.

[KWP]

He was a true artist ... he was in touch X