Because Of

Because of a few songs
wherein I spoke of their mystery,
women have been exceptionally kind
to my old age.

They make a secret place
in their busy lives
and they take me there. They become
naked in their different ways and they say:
-- Look at me, Leonard,
look at me one last time.

Then they bend over the bed
and cover me up like a baby that is shivering.

[leonard cohen

[dear heather, 2004