Archive for the ‘People’ Category

1978-09-03

Sunday, September 3rd, 1978
      Sensuous sister of mine,
         how I wish you'd flown with me.
      Now that the evenings come winding down,
         I think of what I could've shown you
            if you'd have trusted me.

      Steppenwolf's dream is not so far away
         as eight hours and an open mind.

      Senses open to a wind so fine
         you'd think that your soul is going to
            burn up in the fire.

      Its so easy then ... you just let go ...
         but I, whispering from here and you there,
            how will you ever know?

      You've given me your time and love
         again and again until sunrise
      but we've never journeyed half so far
         as we could have here.

      I'm not going to steal your soul
         but I'll show you mine
            in a light  you've never seen
               my sweet sister.

                     gallagher
                     09-03-78 - poem to kathy a.
                                written at the end of
                                an acid trip I'd wanted
                                her to join me on
                     long beach

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1978-09-03

Sunday, September 3rd, 1978
            Dreams of the Shaman again tonight
            power for the giving
            I preserve my dreams against the tide
            but what of the people in my life?

            Do I toy with them so cruelly
            I don't want to ... I just want to grow
            as big as my dreams ... or fall trying.

            She asked me to leave these many months
            and now she'd call me due
            but I won't give into these old ways.

            I ache inside for her need
            but mine runs a deeper course
            and tonight ... I hear Helen on the wind
            and all my questions tensed
            before realities brief facades.

            Sanity or no, convention or not,
            is it a space I can live with?
            And will her need
            give me the time to find out.

                                 gallagher
                                 03 september 78 - LSD
                                 references to Helen O'flarity

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1978-09-03

Sunday, September 3rd, 1978
      The tides in my life are rolling
      these days begin to focus their force on me
      rebirth again...just as I've called for it...again and again.

      The easy paths always divide
      and I'm forced to choose, forced to focus, forced to endure
      where two weeks ago I had it all
      today, I'm looking at chaos and confusion.

      Rose wants me to come back
      Helen's in a mental hospital
      and the other three are stepping away for another look.

      I want to hold on the to clarity of my gut visions
      but they're so easily lost
      personalities, priority conflicts, needs, finite energy
      I'm small against my history, today.

      I know I'm going to take a ride
      through my doubts and fears to some other side.

      If you would, love me, life.
      help me through to the other side...intact
      with all my love and my freedom...and all my dreams.

                              gallagher
                              03 Sep 78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —