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1985-05-05

Sunday, May 5th, 1985
      Sometimes like a vessel that just gets filled
      I have to stay up late and pay my bills.
      Open my heart all across the page
      and let the pains and fears and love come rage.
      Here, where the evening waits with me,
      my family's breathing is love indeed.
      And I'm here in a poet's home
      with dusty memories and my heart, alone.
      Oh, God, why did you give me these feelings here
      so I ache from love and the passing years.
      You gave me this vision and a hungry heart,
      so I'm a mystic, a lover, and a father; part.
      And here am I astride my years
      stumbling from blindness and my gaping fears.
      So, I bow my head and say, "Let the wind take all."
      I will seek the truth behind it all,
      even as I hear the sweet ground's call.
                              gallagher
                              5 May 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1985-05-05

Sunday, May 5th, 1985

 

            A little boy has the chicken pox
              his skin comes boiling
            but its my heart
              that talks....
            He whines and twitches; it itches so bad,
              and I look at his skin and I just get mad.
            Love and anger, compassion and strain,
              I ache for his innocence, so small against pain.
            These moments are burnt of welling tears
              hard passages through my mortal fears.
            The love we feel, on this stage of death,
              for all the vanished children and we who're left.
            All this was mine, as I held his hand.
              As his little courage
                 struggled so hard to stand.
            All this was mine
              ...but, Dear God, I don't understand.
                                 gallagher
                                 5 may 85

 

 

 

 

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1985-05-29 May 25th.85

Wednesday, May 29th, 1985
                                                        May 25th.85
                                        Hey Dennis speaking,
            I've been looking at that little girl on my chest of
    drawers.  So cute, so submissive, so sweet.  You, who have been used
    to such strong women.  You've got your rock of Gibralter down south,
    keeping everything together for you, and then, there's me and the
    others, all pretty strong women I suspect.  How are you going to
    deal with all that unassertivness?  What?  What did you say?  You're
    going to try hard?  A new challenge?  An enlightening experience?  I
    can see your smile from here.
            This is all on my mind because I'm going to miss you so.  My
    feelings have evolved without even consulting me.  So fast.  Nobody
    said, "Lise, we're contemplating going to the next step up.  What do
    you think?".  No-o-o-o.  It all happened behind my back.  When I
    wasn't looking.  And I thought I had everything under control.  The
    girl needed to be humbled.  But then so did you.  The man with the
    perfect life.  Thank God I came along!  You needed me too, sweetie.
            And now here it is.  I love you with all my heart.  Can't go
    back on that.  Put that feather in your cap, Gallagher.  Another one
    bites the dust.
            Not so, not so.  I'm going to be just fine.  But you are
    going to leave me with such a big void in my life.  I mean, what do
    I do when I want to touch you, kiss you, love you.  How do I do all
    of that long distance?  Who is going to kiss my breasts the way you
    do, who is going to kiss my neck, touch me, make love to me the way
    you do?  Ask your computers.
            It's not only that.  You have been a great friend.  You have
    done so much for me these past few months.  You have helped me
    financially, emotionally, you have loved me no matter what.
    Truthfully, you have surprised me.  The way it looks is that I take
    and you give.  Do I give you anything?  Can you let me?  I love you,
    sweetie.  And I want you.  So get your beautiful ass over here and
    let me make you feel good.
                                        Lise
    - written the day after Lise's surgery.

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —