Home alone on a Friday night

There is a crack, a

crack in everything, that's

how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen's Anthem, turned into Haiku.

Here's the song verse:

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in

-Anthem, Leonard Cohen (which I've been taken with before)

I don't know what took my fancy to mess about with perfectly good poetry (I felt like being a teenage emo this evening and facebooking a whole stream of melancholy song lyrics, so I thought I'd blog them instead), but here's another go (which doesn't work so well):

Seems I'm still hurting

Can't turn the other cheek - I

love you, but can't speak

Leonard Cohen's Coming Back to You, turned into Haiku.

Here's the song fragment:

Maybe I'm still hurting

I can't turn the other cheek

But you know that I still love you

It's just that I can't speak

-Coming Back to You, Leonard Cohen

(Some of Leonard Cohen's lyrics are so good. It's a shame very little of his music does anything for me. I actually hung out in Berkelouws bookshop earlier and was looking through a book of his lyrics in the poetry section, which I've looked through many times already, and one thing lead to another ... 'til I wrote a silly blog post.)