My mind and heart are crying,— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
my reason runs demented,
trying to see a way
to make things again
what they were just last Friday
when I visited you at noon
and loved you
and looked at the pictures you’d placed
around to show Anthony you loved me.
That warmth and trust,
that joy that you were in my life
filled me up as it has so many times.
And now its Thursday
and I ache for anyway at all
to make it right again.
gallagher
21 Nov 85
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1985-11-21
Thursday, November 21st, 19851985-11-22
Friday, November 22nd, 1985Oh God, you’re such a jokester.— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
The last two nights I’ve been through hell
with Lise and Anthony
and tonight I come here to be with Rose
to deflect the pain
and I find more than simple compassion;
I find Rose renewed by her friend, Jack,
and I find a house
where my problems with Lise
are not uninvited lepers.
I find love and acceptance and compassion
and I find the misery Lise has given me
melting like summer snow.
Lise and her confusion begin to look
like simple flakiness to me
now that these bands are drawn from my heart.
gallagher
22 Nov 85
– At Rose’s while Lise has gone off to be with Anthony.
1985-11-22
Friday, November 22nd, 1985Lise is taken by Anthony— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
robbed of her reason by desire
and I have been as taken by Lise
robbed of my perspective
by her special ‘something’.
Rose, whose petty jealousy
once drove me away towards Lise
has grown again since my departure
and now, on my return,
stands ready to help me
see more clearly.
gallagher
22 Nov 85