SamadhiMuse

      This evening waits against my empty heart.
      It’s come to rest…  footsteps die away.
      Motors drone and light bulbs blaze of ice.
      I’m alone and all up against myself.
      The silence claws, begs me… for relief.
      A letter’s started, dies, for nothing’s brief.
      I willed to face it, the neon aching time,
      without distractions, to edge up to some line.
                              gallagher
                              31 jan 84
                              irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

         Why do we struggle so...
           we who are just indefinite moments
              of indistinct clarity.

          Small perceptions astride eternal purpose
           fragments of evolution's imagination
              minor reflections in the ocean of her.
  
         Unable to stop her birth pangs
           we live as froth from her caldron's brew
              and live and die...beneath her swell.

         We who have only to create ourselves
           and our progeny here
              where the sun's excess showers us.

         Here, close to the flame
           where entropy run reversed
              here...we search for our name.

                                       gallagher
                                       01 feb 84
                                       Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

               I see myself talking
               with my heart open
               attempting to cut through
               the insanity and bullshit.
               why, I don’t understand,
               but I seem to have some gift
               to make people understand.
               I’m wrestling loosely with it now
               but I want to get more focus.
               Its not enough to just talk
               but I don’t want to build a system.
               waiting is… waiting is.
               The gift shines, my heart pounds
               I’ll grope my way, if I can
               God willing.
                              gallagher
                              01 mar 84
                              Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —