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 —
Its hard to believe the beauty around me
when its so rare and fine,
calling me, my eyes water with want
and my soul aches for the loss of it
but my car won't start today
and I've never got enough time
to do all those mundane things
this dusty smoggy LA life is full of.
I don't know where the shining haired
beautiful people are today,
there's none in my mirror.
Though, sometimes, when my car starts
and I've got a dollar in my pocket
I can convince my friends I might know something
just to see their eyes begin to water....
gallagher
17 jan 75
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —