Let It Be

Wouldn’t we all like to lie back
with our headphones on
and listen to the music of our choice.
Then we could ignore the nagging little voice
that keeps on and on and on
at us to make ourselves useful. The track

I’d be listening to would probably be
I’m Only Sleeping (or Leonard’s Take This Waltz,
for I’m still thinking about his death
and of another death: I witnessed a last breath,
the one that stops a life in its tracks, that halts
a person for ever. They become a memory.
They are no more. They surrender. Let It Be ).


I'm Only Sleeping

Take This Waltz

Let It Be