The warm summer’s evening slumbers— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
amid the afternoon’s late umbers
The warm summer wind carressed us
and I felt her hands, warm
coming thru my skin
and, so, the evening fell
as our skins pressed and our minds umbered
beneath the summer night’s spell.
gallagher
05-12-78 – about helen k.
long beach
Archive for May, 1978
1978-05-12
Friday, May 12th, 19781978-05-14
Sunday, May 14th, 1978How quickly turns the wheel— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
on which our heartaches ride
our love which was so evergreen
now shows its winter side.
She kissed my soul and loved me as a boy
her love for ten years nurtured me
a mother, friend, lover and more.
Much more than these.
Her love has been my sanity
her loss beyond belief.
I guess the hardest part
is to see the change in her.
The bitter weeds her heartache’s sowed
and which my own injustice grew.
Sometimes I see her faults so clear
sometimes only her love.
The same girl whose moods enrage me
is the one whose love can then unthaw.
I guess I can live without her love
but I wonder how to pass these straits
where my heartaches mount in chorused screams
and each moment becomes a day.
gallagher
14 may 78 – Long Beach
1978-05-14
Sunday, May 14th, 1978Kathy down in Mexico, soaking up the Sun…— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
and me here in L.A. with my heart-strings on the run
the Sun it waxes higher, these days could come undone
the L.A. heat is killing me and I envy Kathy’s fun.
All our secrets run together all our questions arn’t for free
these L.A. tangles have got me as the burning Sun can see
gallagher
14 may 78