Rose said
she’s decided within these last few days
that she wants a ‘real’ marriage;
she’s 37 and she wants a future.
She said she used to love me
to the point of idolizing me
but now, … now she likes Jack a lot
and, if he asks, she’ll continue
to go with him.
And, as for me …
she’s not sure …
she wants my love back like it was
and she wants to hold me at a distance
and comfort my pain like a mother
but not to touch my body
like a woman.
Lise has left me a legacy;
perhaps not what she’s imagined.
She’s driven me to my knees
with pain and insecurity
but not before she saw me
cut Rose to the bone
with my love for her.
And now Rose recedes as Lise did
and my buddhist enlightened futures
come a crushers with Christmas
and a new year and life.
gallagher
13 dec 85
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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