SamadhiMuse

                        KK and Colorado
         What changed with her in the mountains?
         her spirit and candor spoke straight to me
         until I could resist no more
         and now her eyes mean something to me.
         How strange … does love create its own reflection?
         no matter, its right … I miss her love.
         How could I not love this woman?
         Strong and open, intelligence and thoughtful,
         loving and needing love, independent and fair,
         she’s a wonder of a human being ….
         The more I see into her … the more I see
         every question squarely dealt with and answered
         every emotion lived … not hidden ….
         But I suppose, most of all, its her love,
         her love that she gives so freely,
         that I need most and least understand.
         I hope she doesn’t find me lacking
            as she dances her heart into mine.
                           gallagher
                           Long Beach – about Kathi K.
                           06-14-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

I ache for love …
for its absence …
for the hole its left
here in the silent spaces deep inside …
where I am … where I wait
Kathi said she wanted to love …
that it had been so long … too long
but my ache hadn’t been deep enough yet to hear her
   when she spoke the truth
now I know that I’m crying too, deep inside …
for all the needs I’ve tried to hide
and now her words talk to me …
I remember how she said them …
I hear her, oh Lord, you know I do …
the same spirit cries there as mine …
she’s got strength to spare, I know …
   but she still cries … for love, for more
but what can we do here, this life is so complex …
it seems to go on and on
its no longer enough just to love …
freedom comes within us too …
and we need to learn to understand …
that trust is so much more
than the touches we might bestow on another’s skin …
   or the things we could say to them
I feel her love like warm whiskey exploding in my stomach …
flushed with the flow … I feel myself going over …
   my feelings begin to grow.
                           gallagher
                           6-25-78 – about Kathi K.
                           long beach

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —