What you've all been waiting for . . .

I KNOW you're all eager to read more about the "bitter searching of our hearts" so here it is ( just think of all those women singing "aahh" while you read) :

"Villanelle For Our Time" - Leonard Cohen

From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.

Cheers (you can all thank me later . . .) :)
-Dena