Travel
by Leonard Cohen
Loving you, flesh to flesh, I often thought Of travelling penniless to some mud throne Where a master might instruct me how to plot My life away from pain, to love alone In the bruiseless embrace of stone and lake.
Lost in the fields of your hair I was never lost Enough to lose a way I had to take; Breathless beside your body I could not exhaust The will that forbid me contract, vow, Or promise, and often while you slept I looked in awe beyond your beauty.
Now I know why many men have stopped and wept Half-way between the loves they leave and seek, And wondered if travel leads them anywhere -- Horizons keep the soft line of your cheek, The windy sky’s a locket for your hair.

















