1985-08-07

How sweet it is that she gives me her love
and sends me home so full of peace.
Here to be with my books and poems,
secure and loved against the night
and that awesome emptiness
that can destroy our serenity.
Her face in my mind so close
her hands and skin and words…

…the evening air caresses me
as I ride thru all the years
of these poems.

gallagher
7 august 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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1985-08-07

I’m drifting, walking, thinking
and then I remember you
and such a feeling fills me
that I want to run and hold you
so I can share this joy.

We’ve started a fire here
where we dance beneath the moon
under these, the ripped and passing clouds,
and we dare the flames to touch the sky.

My heart aches that love could have found me
so long jaded with stale dreams,
and compromise.

But now this love burns with an abandon
both timeless and transient.
Here, eyes look at me like I never thought
to see in this life.

Here I love … here, I am.

gallagher
7 august 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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