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1978-05-18 KK

Thursday, May 18th, 1978

KK

Unmoved by her candor, passion or maturity
my melancholy carried me thru

How, I wonder, can I share myself with another
when I’m so torn and confused and thin now…
jaded and pensive I said ‘yes’ to her
and showed myself once again

I’m empty … not much more left to share
Rose’s pain, has filled me up and emptied me
She’s gone, and all these others talk in vain

My confusion is so deep, my emptiness so wide
that my lover’s smiles can’t find me inside.

gallagher

05-18-78

Long Beach


— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1978-05-18

Thursday, May 18th, 1978

Crazy life, getting a lot of it these days
summer’s coming’, lovers too…its a fantasy done
in emotional pastels

Rose and I…drifted apart…
still some love in our eyes,
its easy…when we don’t hassle
how could I not love her…how?

New people, eyes and hands and time…
the sunlight and the plants…the music
these days that bear the passage of time…well

Ah, I’m dreamin’ away…some Siddartha…midway
down the midway of my dreams
passion and freight trains running all night.

Danny…Danny’s eyes growing up…we talk
I feel it, my bond to this boy, our flesh
and its OK…its good to be his father

time will walk me down sometime
to the end of these dream days
and unfold others for me to learn from.

but they’re all the same…mine
fly me now, self, into this song
chord days…ring me…and ring me well.

gallagher
18 may 78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1978-05-22

Monday, May 22nd, 1978
               Did you know you smile in
                     your sleep?
               You must be having good dreams
               I wonder if I am there - -
                     no matter,
               for now, I am content with being
                     your reality.
               You make me run-through-the
               sprinkler-on-a-hot-day happy.
               Like a playful breeze you've
               blown ever-so-gently across
               my life.
               You cool me,
                  refresh me,
                     gentle me
               I know you'll blow away,
                              but wait,
               Please wait,
                  at least until the heat has passed.
                              Kathi K.
                              05-22-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —