SamadhiMuse

            I’ve been going around in circles all day
            bouncing between a resentful jealousy
            and a readiness to reject her
            before she really hurts me.
            And, sometimes, a flash of understanding
            of the true dynamics here…
            An recognition that unless I love her
            as she is, come what may,
            there is no possibility
            that she will ever love me
            as I want to be loved by her.
                                 gallagher
                                 20 Nov 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            If I ever doubted the wisdom
            I’ve been trying so hard to realize
            these many years,
            it comes to me, at times like these,
            how true those insights are
            and how frail is my grasp of them.
            What is jealousy
            but a wish to have the world as we want it
            rather than as it is.
            And what are any of our emotions
            but clouds that block and color our true seeing.
            And what is it in us
            that thinks it can truly sustain gains or loss
            but that imaginary something called ego
            just believing its own dreams and illusions.
            And what is love,
            if not an utter acceptance,
            but an unhealthy attachment
            to something in this world.
            This world that promises nothing
            but unrelenting change.
                                 gallagher
                                 20 Nov 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            God would not challenge us
            with more than we could handle.
            Nor would he humor us with anything
            requiring less than our best.
            He moves through the forms of our lives
            be they lovers, or children,
            or death, or riches.
            And like the drops of rain
            that fall on the mountain
            we must find our way to the sea
            through every fate that can befall us
            along the way.
                                 gallagher
                                 20 Nov 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —