I hear the freight train running thru my soul— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
and something in me cries out to be whole
come find me, love
I’m waiting these days for a woman to come for me
and look at me into the back of my soul
I’ve seen glimpses of her in many people
but never once whole
She’ll have eyes that will make me lose the ground
and candor until I’ll cry for the beauty of her truthfulness
and strength and clear eyes
And, more than anything else,
she’ll love herself, simply and completely.
gallagher
06 apr 78
Archive for April, 1978
1978-04-06
Thursday, April 6th, 19781978-04-08
Saturday, April 8th, 1978What days of our lives, these— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
crystal passages thru changes and truth
somehow finding our way by our guts alone
marriage and lovers and love turning us around
brutally
as we try to retain our feelings
its hard with so much truth
and such strong differences of opinion
Gallagher
04/08/78
1978-04-09 For Kathy A.
Sunday, April 9th, 1978For Kathy A.
Ah lady, so torn and tangled.
I want so to make you smile and laugh
and to share the secret spaces
where the little girl lives inside of you.
But sometimes those deep channels
of your pain and indecision just run too deep.
Its as if I’m in some crazy Italian movie.
I feel your life and see your pain
between the hours and cups of coffee
and these office walls.
And I see when you have to push to keep yourself together.
I can feel the struggle too.
Sometimes your phone voice is so professional,
I wonder where you’ve hidden yourself
and I ache for someone I know is in there.
I wonder, sometimes, what you would become
if you were freed to love.
Would your concentration then give way
to joyous competence
and would just staying on top
become the ride of a lifetime?
Ah lady, what I feel are my memories and empathy of you.
Your brown eyes so full of promise and pain.
They capture me again and again
until I stare … rapt and dumb
into someone’s soul so torn and lovely at once.
gallagher
09 apr 78
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —