Gerda and the book, 2150 A.D., taught me something— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
about sexual union
and spiritual compatibility…
it’s true.
We do have soul mates, brother and sister spirits.
Come and wash me in your peace, sister
and sooth the ache that waits forever
to be whole.
Eyes to eyes … skin to skin …
these, these cannot begin to express
how much we are kin.
gallagher
25 july 84
irvine
about Gerda O.
Archive for the ‘People’ Category
1984-07-25
Wednesday, July 25th, 19841984-07-25 For Gerda
Wednesday, July 25th, 1984
For Gerda
We walk by ...we touch ...we speak
rivers form and merge, divide and entwine
deep waters running
like music with no beginning ...and no end.
We are one thing ...and we are two, at once
my sister, my lover, my mother, my friend
we drink and the cup ...the cup never empties
until we sleep.
We talk and laugh ...and we cherish the ground
like children who have found a magic place
everything under our hands and eyes
becoming God ...in us ...complete.
gallagher
25 july 84
irvine
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
1984-07-29
Sunday, July 29th, 1984There she sits…with a son signed up for Christ— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
and husband lost in mystic irrelevance
and another son still growing,
God knows what he’ll become.
She’s from the simple small town people
and she just wants to draw a circle around us
with the family gathered inside
full of babies and love and our years together.
It must seem like its all unraveling to her sometimes
that those she loves don’t find her dreams enough,
aching wait… “Will they all leave me?
Can what I believe in be so unimportant to them…?”
Tiring through the years, her passions run shallower now
her ex-husband no longer some magic against the future
but just a long swell of disappointment
a wave that passed into a slowly ebbing dream…
a slowly ebbing dream …
and her son, her son reborn in Jesus,
her baby, at fourteen.
gallagher
29 jul 84
Irvine