"Come Healing" by Leonard Cohen (may his spirit rest in peace)

[shadowkat]

I found this song to be very comforting and somewhat healing today:

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Come Healing Lyrics

O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow

The splinters that you carry
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace

O solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

O see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart

O troubled dust concealing
An undivided love
The heart beneath is teaching
To the broken heart above

Let the heavens falter
Let the earth proclaim
Come healing of the altar
Come healing of the name

O longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O longing of the arteries
To purify the blood

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

O let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

Songwriters: COHEN, LEONARD / LEONARD, PATRICK
Come Healing lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Decided to take a lengthy hiatus from Face Book. Exhausted. And I feel sick. Haven't been sleeping well. This election amongst other things has taken its toll. And Facebook was making it worse. I felt disconnected. And was compulsively posting hoping for connection, but it just made things worse somehow. I need to pull back from it completely.

That said, I love and appreciate the people on my livejournal flist a great deal right now. Even if I hear from many of you sporadically. This is my safe place online at least for now. Of course, it helps that my family and various others can't find me here.

Comments

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

It's been a terrible week. I keep telling myself to stay away from the internet but it's been too hard. I haven't done anything productive in days.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I know. I haven't been able to write on either novel all week, or not since Monday. Total writer's block. And was having troubles focusing at work all week long...brain fog.

Trying to stay off FB, which I realized was slowly driving me insane. I did post an essay that I wrote on my word press blog there.