Rose said— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
she’s decided within these last few days
that she wants a ‘real’ marriage;
she’s 37 and she wants a future.
She said she used to love me
to the point of idolizing me
but now, … now she likes Jack a lot
and, if he asks, she’ll continue
to go with him.
And, as for me …
she’s not sure …
she wants my love back like it was
and she wants to hold me at a distance
and comfort my pain like a mother
but not to touch my body
like a woman.
Lise has left me a legacy;
perhaps not what she’s imagined.
She’s driven me to my knees
with pain and insecurity
but not before she saw me
cut Rose to the bone
with my love for her.
And now Rose recedes as Lise did
and my buddhist enlightened futures
come a crushers with Christmas
and a new year and life.
gallagher
13 dec 85
Archive for the ‘1985’ Category
1985-12-13
Friday, December 13th, 19851985-12-13
Friday, December 13th, 1985I can feel the hours go run— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
and I know more day by day
that she won’t call.
It’s still beyond me to understand
how a woman who was in love with me
could turn away
so suddenly.
So many things each day I’d like to tell her
but she’s … she’s not there
and I don’t think
she’s coming again.
gallagher
13 dec 85
1985-12-13
Friday, December 13th, 1985Spiritual time is not sequential— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
Shirley MacLaine says, its holographic.
Thus our various reincarnations need not come sequential
but in any order; backwards or forwards.
If mankind truly is on the brink of destruction
then it’s reasonable that we would only hear of ‘past’ lives.
But without the sequential requirement
the end of history, as we think of it,
is no barrier
to our life eternal.
gallagher
13 dec 85