In My Secret Life

"I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. 

Can't seem to loosen my grip 

On the past. 

And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. 

And we're still making love

 In my secret life. 

I smile when I am angry, 

I cheat and I lie,

 I do what I have to do to get by, 

In my secret life.”

“And I'll dance with you in Vienna, 

I'll be wearing a river's disguise. 

The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. 

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. 

And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.”

“Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.”

“-You know how to call me although such a noise now would only confuse the air 

Neither of us can forget the steps we danced the words you stretched to call me out of dust 

Yes I long for you not just as a leaf for weather or vase for hands but with a narrow human longing that makes a man refuse any fields but his own

I wait for you at an unexpected place in your journey like the rusted key or the feather you do not pick up.-..."

“Silence 

And a deeper silence 

When the crickets 

Hesitate”

Leonard Cohen