SamadhiMuse

         Where’s a moment that I can say’s not ours
         that I might run free of love.
         To feel the sun, all mine again.
         To be in love with life.
         Lord, I care for you,
         and, yes, even love you
         but its not enough anymore.
         Its just not enough if it becomes a limit.
         Outside my front door and your love
         lies the rest of the world
         and I can hear it calling to me.
         What’s there in houses and bills to compare
         with the shock of these last months;
         the lovers, the pain, and the poetry
         and…most of all, you and I finding our ways.
         Love’s no better than a house
         if it hides you from something
         instead of giving you rest before you go out again
         to press life to you
         as if it were the most important thing….
                              gallagher
                              apr 10, 78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

      I can feel myself, I’ve grown beyond our love now.
      I’m taller by far than I used to be
      the world and all its fears no longer scares me
      and I can feel myself running free
      I’m no longer bound by love to be a leaner
      I make my way by knowing need’s a bore
      she wishes after what she’d like to have now
      but my need is gone and she can’t hold me anymore
      with patient hours I try to reconcile
      the pain her need is causing more and more
      I say I’d like to see her if it feels good
      but her pain is driving her harder than before
      then I think I don’t need to really see her
      when all she wants is to have me as before
      and our hours are filled with such painful struggle
      that I wonder what I need the hassle for
      I’m free and she can’t seem to understand it
      I love her still but now its something more
      she like to own me outright but she cannot
      my love is mine to give, so unlike before…
                              gallagher
                              15 april 78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —