In my secret life
In my secret life
In my secret life
In my secret life
Cohen often speaks about poetry as reporting on the interior landscape, or “the poem is the constitution of the inner country” a line which he reads in this poem:  For Cohen, to venture into the interior landscape is to ask what is really going on? What happened between us? Here “My Secret Life” seems to be a synonym for the interior landscape. He has stressed the importance, similarly, of cultivating an interior life. 
 At the end of this first stanza, he makes clear that in spite of what happened in his life, he has something else going on in his mind.
In My Secret Life