Priest Leonard Cohen

1. On this day, I remember a musical priest whose sermons I still read in the notes of his songs. We will miss you dearly, Leonard Cohen.

   Priest: Leonard (Cohen)

   We heard his syrupy voice as black as pitch …
   preaching his dark sermons
   in smoke and fire
   in open ditches and underpasses
   somewhere in the land of somewhere
   under the veil of nowhere.
   We realized it was a revival,
   complete with tables and
   tent poles and lost souls,
   though there were no white canvases, no white lies.
   He drained us of everything we had,
   all our internal resources, all our desires,
   all our false hopes, drowning in a sea of
   questions marks, ash, and splinters,

   but somehow, when we came up out of the
   waters,

   we came up clean.

   – Gina Marie Mammano