1985-11-22

Oh God, you’re such a jokester.
The last two nights I’ve been through hell
with Lise and Anthony
and tonight I come here to be with Rose
to deflect the pain
and I find more than simple compassion;
I find Rose renewed by her friend, Jack,
and I find a house
where my problems with Lise
are not uninvited lepers.
I find love and acceptance and compassion
and I find the misery Lise has given me
melting like summer snow.

Lise and her confusion begin to look
like simple flakiness to me
now that these bands are drawn from my heart.

gallagher
22 Nov 85

– At Rose’s while Lise has gone off to be with Anthony.

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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1985-11-22

Lise is taken by Anthony
robbed of her reason by desire
and I have been as taken by Lise
robbed of my perspective
by her special ‘something’.

Rose, whose petty jealousy
once drove me away towards Lise
has grown again since my departure
and now, on my return,
stands ready to help me
see more clearly.

gallagher
22 Nov 85


— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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1985-11-22

Lise, your struggle was so real to me today.
Indeed, I was in it, I was part of it.

My love for you,
my willingness to fight the desperate fight.
My fear of loosing you
fueled by some obsession
that seeing too much of another’s reality
can create.

How hard I twisted among dreams and nightmares,
how close I was to some bitter edge,
and now … now I see it all for illusion.

The simple fact is I deeply love a flake.
A flake who allowed a reality to build
like we’ve been dealing with these last days
and who cannot find the compassion
to put it to rest.

I want to love a woman who can create this mess
and who can allow someone she claims to love
to stumble in it in pain and darkness
while she chooses her poison in high drama.

Rose has grown again and her strength and compassion
have released me from your spell
and I see so clearly now
that I’ve fallen in love with a passionate flake.

gallagher
22 Nov 85

– at Rose’s

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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