I ache for love …
for its absence …
for the hole its left
here in the silent spaces deep inside …
where I am … where I wait
Kathi said she wanted to love …
that it had been so long … too long
but my ache hadn’t been deep enough yet to hear her
when she spoke the truth
now I know that I’m crying too, deep inside …
for all the needs I’ve tried to hide
and now her words talk to me …
I remember how she said them …
I hear her, oh Lord, you know I do …
the same spirit cries there as mine …
she’s got strength to spare, I know …
but she still cries … for love, for more
but what can we do here, this life is so complex …
it seems to go on and on
its no longer enough just to love …
freedom comes within us too …
and we need to learn to understand …
that trust is so much more
than the touches we might bestow on another’s skin …
or the things we could say to them
I feel her love like warm whiskey exploding in my stomach …
flushed with the flow … I feel myself going over …
my feelings begin to grow.
gallagher
6-25-78 – about Kathi K.
long beach
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