The hammers of mortality
are pounding around me hard.
Friends are being led away
from the crowd
and the rise of sadness
gathers around my heart
every day.
I can feel their losses
emptying the space around me.
Gallagher
24May23
Christchurch / Los Angeles
– to the tune of Flowers by Miley Cyrus
– Anthony was Lise’s husband of many years
I said ‘no’, when they wanted me
to kill people
in a foreign land.
And I said ‘no’, when love wanted
to keep me
in chains of emotional dependence.
But now that death and aging have come
to ask for my hand
I cannot say no.
Gallagher
16Oct23
Christchurch
The local ‘manifested’ when
it began to echo itself.
Its self-replication
became the heartbeat
of something new
within the default.
Remaking itself faster
than it could be remelted
back into everything,
it began to stand alone.
Existence began to spawn
a self-awareness
with which to eventually
see and reflect on itself.
We are first sight
finding its way.
gallagher
02Nov2023
Christchurch