Gift

May 29, 2003
8:50 am

Look, read this. Like everything I find that is beautiful, I want to share it with you, to run a fingertip over your face as you feel through it and to look in your eyes and see that it hits you just exactly the same place the same way it hits me.

Gift

You tell me that silence
is nearer to peace than poems
but if for my gift
I brought you silence
(for I know silence)
you would say
This is not silence
this is another poem
and you would hand it back to me.

--Leonard Cohen