SamadhiMuse

            Monday mornings can get so hard
            crushed by my weekend dreams
            visions of my family and passing time
            of God and this impermanent dust we are.
            The wind blows on a crisp October morning.
            The moving trees and dry leaves
            remind me so deeply
            of when I saw these things
            young and simple.
            Christianity unraveling
            on the pages I read
            while I wait for the adventure
            I’ve always longed for.
                                 gallagher
                                 14 oct 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            Human beings can get used to almost anything.
            It’s just the transitions
            that take us by storm.
            What an empty naked aching
            stands between me
            and learning to be alone.
            And in what concrete postures
            of discomfort and compromise
            we stand frozen by fear.
            For it is no idle discomfort
            that waits beyond the campfires of love
            but a gaping canyon of terror
            to cross.
                              gallagher
                              18 Oct 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —