We talked about Bhagwan and religion today.— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
She thinks I’m crazy but without malice.
I tried to make the point that he is to religion
what ‘One World’ is to nationalism
Somehow its only the Rolls Royces everyone sees
and I had to confess I don’t understand
that part myself.
I told her that if I couldn’t get time off
I would quit my job to go this summer
and she couldn’t fathom how something
I’m so inactive in
could be so important to me.
I said that in my priorities only she
and the kids came higher.
I tried to ask her how she would feel
if somehow she had come to believe
that Christ had returned…
would it change her life,
that He was existing, available,
in our society?
Would it change mine?
I’m still trying to find out.
I’m going to go again in July and
join the Buddhafield.
Open my heart and eyes to the storm
of history around this man.
Gallagher
3 April 83
S.J.C.
Archive for April, 1983
1983-04-03
Sunday, April 3rd, 19831983-04-03
Sunday, April 3rd, 1983Lying there beside her, I smell her skin, the warmth of her— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
I see, or imagine, in the gray light, the wrinkles
I’ve put there and I feel the storm of our lives
She’s told me her period’s wrong and that her breasts hurt.
For months we’ve tried to conceive
and come to this.
I put my hand on her back beneath the covers
intimate against her sleeping
I would know her skin anywhere.
I begin to feel age and our mortality.
Even now my body says I press too hard
that I cannot become what I once was.
And she who grows more precious to me each year
grow more ripe for He who reaps us all.
I touch her back and feel her breath … this moment.
Gallagher
3 April 83, SJC
1983-04-04 586
Monday, April 4th, 1983586— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
So we choose what we want to decorate our lives
and then find ourselves in empty rooms
with mocking mirrors and the riddle
of how everything can be just as we wanted it
and yet so utterly empty and unfulfilling
I walk these rooms and wait the clock
twist against frustration and strive to see the truth
but I carry weapons against the deadness;
love and memories, pictures and words
faces and touches, family names
they can’t break me on their pressures
though sometimes they send me out
to stumble blank-eyed
from the wicked press of incomprehension
as long as there are children’s smiles
and a woman’s love
I can survive
04-04-83
Irvine at Pick