SamadhiMuse

            Human beings can get used to almost anything.
            It’s just the transitions
            that take us by storm.
            What an empty naked aching
            stands between me
            and learning to be alone.
            And in what concrete postures
            of discomfort and compromise
            we stand frozen by fear.
            For it is no idle discomfort
            that waits beyond the campfires of love
            but a gaping canyon of terror
            to cross.
                              gallagher
                              18 Oct 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            It laps around our mental feet
            waiting for those moments
            when we are alone
            to rise to consciousness.
            That empty aching feeling
            of being so terribly alone;
            insidiously, it devastates us
            with the stranger’s face,
            asphalt, other people’s children,
            the women in the market,
            all from another world,
            now closed to us.
            Such a gaping window opens here
            just behind our suburban bliss
            and our workday mindlessness.
            A naked armageddon of the spirit
            arrived from nowhere
            to claim us.
                                 gallagher
                                 18 Oct 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —