Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever going to rest
life keeps building up, relentless pressing tests
your heart, your mind, your patience all at war
until … my feeling mount and I want to cry, ‘No more!’
I know (believe) there is a why though I can barely hold the thread
to gather from this chaos the one, the essential thing
I need to learn to exist all on my own
my views and mind intact, my integrity gone full ring
to bear pain without destruction and feel joy without the need of it
to center sure against all tests and save a place to breath
To press myself against life’s tests without this essential thing
is just to waste my life unraveling, …string by string
gallagher
12 september 78
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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