Challenger down— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
A look at our mortality again today.
Life and death, spirits and love, all together.
Something in me can almost grasp it, sometimes.
The faces and hopes of these people,
their purpose and joy, their lives and deaths.
Sometimes I think we’re here,
just cattle in God’s pens.
We move, we feel, we birth, we love
but still die for purposes
far beyond our small understanding.
The best of what we love and what we are
seem so intense and so transient, at once.
The best of us die without apparent purpose,
without explanation.
I can almost grasp it … maybe I will
before I am driven from the stage too.
I hope our choices and actions
are not just empty gestures
against death’s apparent caprice.
gallagher
28 Jan 86
Irvine
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1986-01-28 Challenger down
Tuesday, January 28th, 19861986-01-28
Tuesday, January 28th, 1986God is everything— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
God is love.
Everything but man is content
to be just what it is.
Wheat to be reaped,
wood to be cut.
We should extinguish ourselves
and stop the difference between us
and the world
and we should love,
love everything,
like the water
that bubbles from a spring.
And, as we would fade,
our love would increase
until we became God,
loving everything.
gallagher
28 Jan 86 #2
1986-02-06
Thursday, February 6th, 19861986 … eight years since ’78— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
and I wonder what I’ve learned since then.
Woman passing by, touching me
like spirit ghosts at some improbable dance.
Rose, stronger … needing me less, free
leaving me less room to hide in her love.
I’m so much on the brink of being alone and free
and so afraid of it.
I can see now how my mother fell into the bottle
and why Bhagwan says enlightenment comes
only when you’re driven to the bitter end
and have nothing more to drop.
You can’t go to that place and hedge your bets.
gallagher
6 feb 86