SamadhiMuse

                                 1
              And these days, how are they coming down now?
                Still the restless dissatisfaction
              that I’ve accomplished nothing materially
                lingers and yawns when I falter
              from this path of timeless hedonism
                ( read ) resolute spiritualism.
              Age walking hard on my face
                and physical capabilities
              reduces the raging youth released syndrome
                to caricature against its light
                   of naked self-perceptions
                      and diminishing futures.
                                    gallagher
                                    3 oct 84, irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

                                   2
           The other day a doctor told me
              that, other than the normal dying we did,
           all of our life,
              I may be faltering now
                 with a name.
           Arthritic deterioration of the spine, he said,
              a weapon which will invite injury
                 and reduce your flexibility, progressively
           Old hedonistic athlete at thirty-seven, stop!
              your time, so briefly shuttered between
           your birth and death, is now exposed for transient
              and, where you postured immortal,
                 you now have your ticket for the journey.
                                    gallagher
                                    3 oct 84, irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

                                   3
           Something rages here
              chalk against God’s board.
           The image I make appears more to me
              than the survival of I,
                 the instrument of writing.
           How shall I say it?  How shall I live it?
              let me, with open hands, dissipate
           against this life with passion
              and not cowardice
           Adjust and accept and play
              for even these days, as all the others,
           contain the seeds of God
              in their perceptions
                 and devout involvements
           Than I may not be able to linger
              is to be dealt with
           by not waiting for departure
              for this cup, like all the others
                 contains the nectar of life to drink.
                                    gallagher
                                    3 oct 84, irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —