SamadhiMuse

      Talking to her eyes … I looked to find peace there
      and to hold it to me to save me from life’s fears
      Ah lady, … how can any of us love and have freedom, both?
      insecurity and fear bay at every gate
      and we’ll never find the line
      between what we want and what can be agreed
      but, for wonder, we talked about it … I holding her hand
      and looking into her eyes to see the fears…
      so rich to say it … life’s mysteries and paradoxes here, today
      in this lady I love so …
      so close and yet, … so far away
      the same needs and the same fears of giving it all away.
                                    gallagher
                                    04 jul 78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

I stopped to think about you
for just a moment….
Our hours
and your dark eyes
warmed me with a longing
as I mused.
You’re so far away and yet,
you’re so near….
Can it be your skin
I touched so
in our secret sheltered hours?

Somewhere, here,
among the efficient people
and the business forms
are you?
Do you breath? …
Are those your same eyes,
skin, hands, feelings
I felt?

Can you understand
why I think these things?
than no matter how many times
I press you to me and kiss your eyes
I will still wonder
if you’re for real….
when you are far away.

Dark eyes, come transfix me
and burn away my doubts.
Let me see your sun-seeds shining
and let me feel you
through these walls and floors.

I want it all,
everything
we can give or get….

gallagher
13 jul 78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —