What fire burns me that
I can't quench the flame?
Would, that I could, seek the cause
but passion's flames rage too high
near that center of my thought
and drive me spinning dizzy from them
again and again.
In this cycle of trying and wanting
spritualism, materialism, realism, humanism,
relative, absolute, unity, becoming
are each some truth but no answer
each is a way, all a paradox.
gallagher
27 November 1973
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —