Take me away if you know where, spirit,
I've been a stranger to your fear before
and I can walk that way again.
My thoughts have been bigger than my words too long
and I want to sail away
on the music of my glory train
into the wind and the rain
on my own two feet again.
gallagher
11 jan 75
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
Some of us rise by spirit
and some by kindness
but most never rise at all.
I've seen them on the side streets
and the bus stops;
the empty faces that fill the census books
but not our hearts.
Who am I to look at them?
Standing outside, for just this heartbeat
mixed and matrixed with them,
my spirit momentarily paused alone.
A fool and his visions
just a breath from my own realities.
gallagher
14 jan 75
- on acid
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
LA visions, tonight, sobered me
junior high hells of extortion and conformity.
The teacher from college who couldn't believe it was real
scared me with his stories ... all I want to do
is get away from the edge of the city's sore.
He goes to the school every day amazed ....
He knows that, but for his tie, they'd rob him.
He sees minds dying, pitifully smothered
never having known clear perceptions.
All of us, here, pushing to get to the top,
somebody's got to fall.
Best to forget them and move on
and try not to look back
not to hear the screams of those who pay
for being born in the wrong place.
We've got FM radio and shopping malls
and a world that seldom borders on theirs.
All we have to do is keep track of the edge of their world
and keep moving, one step ahead of their cries.
gallagher
25 jan 75
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —