SamadhiMuse

                                               10-8/79
         Hi Babe!
              Wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the
         weekend.  Let’s do it again!
              Being at work is a real drag and it will be
         getting even worse.  Hardly any of my stuff was done
         last week.  At least it made the day go by real fast.
         Now I have decided to sluff off for the last 45 minutes.
              I’ve been thinking of you a bunch today.  There is
         so much I have wanted to say but I just don’t know how
         to put it into words. I guess what it all boils down to
         is that I love you.  Is that good or bad?  Sometimes
         its really hard to tell.
                             See you this weekend.
                                       Rose
         Written inside a card.  The card has a funny space
         creature on the front and inside it says, “Tell me its
         not just my body you crave!”.
                          Signed:
                              All my love
                                 Watermelon Lady

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

         The Buddha sings in my ear
         and I smile at purposes I can respect
         and enjoy.
         What can I offer Rose of this, my life?
         That she could accompany music she cannot hear?
         And wait on challenges she could never anticipate
         for the sake of the love of someone
         who loves with only half his heart?
         I would say to her, “Love me, but ask nothing of me.”
         Share my time, the eating of my bread,
         the aging of my wine, the passing of my years.
         But leave me my inner smiles, my dreams.
         That I hear my own music, however out of step
         it may be to anyone else’s.
         I am willing to give a lifetime commitment to love
         if it asks nothing of me but what I would give.
         That the changing aspects of my attention should not
         be mistaken for the lessening of my regard, I would hope.
                                       gallagher
                                       15 Oct 1979

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —