SamadhiMuse

                 Kathy M. III
      Come around again, heart in flames
        going down again, before brown eyes.
      empty response…you leave me no less
      I risked, open and knowing,
        and I cannot loose, doing this
      I walked with elated anticipation and warmth
        into her response
           and the emptiness it gave me
      Her compassion and friendship exchanged
        for my passion
      her reason and values arrayed
        against my poetry
      her brown eyes and warm skin
        now so unreachable
      In the warm and dappled sunlight
        she told me how it was
      Life,
        life, press me as you will
      my skin and my feelings and my heart
        will stay open
      I won’t turn away from you
        or what you pass before me
      These hands, this heart…
        they will feel
      I love, I hurt, I live
        and I am real and I will be no less.
                           gallagher
                           30 jan 84
                           Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

                       Kathy M. IV
         Engraved like stuben glass, her face
           against the sunlight … telling me no
         she wasn’t confused about how she felt
           about me
         about her marriage and her life, yes…
           but about me, … no ….
         I could have wished it otherwise
           my emptiness told me
         but I came here for the truth
           either way … to feel it,
              to embrace it.
         Even now I want to run and say, ‘stay’,
           that I can be JUST friends
         share smiles and lunches and friendship
           endure for the magic of your smiles
              and the candor of your spirit.
         But why say this …
           the sight of her will be enough
         to unmoor me in the days to come
           when against all feeling I’ll ignore her
              and against all reason, … fail.
                           gallagher
                           30 jun 84
                           Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

              Whenever I go away from her
                I ache from the sudden emptiness
              where someone was.
                She’s a slowly growing storm
              an echo of childhood friends
                and a future memory…growing warm.
              She touched me once…
                sudden compression of feeling there
              like acres of skin
                beneath a momentary tear
                                gallagher
                                10 apr 84
                                Irvine, CA

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —