In the name of all that all is holy
By james a. galgano
Scaling the dark side of an unfamiliar heaven
Where a crooked path of broken dreams guide the way
Toward the unlit tunnel of uncertain tomorrow
Into which our journey often leads without invitation
Filled with unlimited hope, misfortune and inevitably despair
The air grows thin as we scale the cliffs of happiness and sorrow
Our broken hearts and calloused limbs cautiously climb each incline
Like Sisyphus we carry upon our backs the endless memories of time
Unable to forget the station our cross travails beyond each abyss
As we carry the baggage of our species like armor going off to battle
Into an endless war often called for indefensible reasons never refuted
Like loyal warriors of crusade or jihad we move forward without question
Wreaking havoc upon all within our way as if some deity commanded it so
Never caring where our travels lead though we know each claim is disputed
We persevere for that divine offer of eternal rapture and infinite delight
As our weapons of ignominy unable to shield us from the woe we cause
Are turned upon us by the evil we provoke in some deity’s familiar name
While we battle onward and upward scaling heaven’s once joyful heights
Knowing in thee back of our deceitful minds full well the woe
We cause will find its way back into our own precariously protected domain
And no matter how we try to justify our actions in all their horror
The evidence of our undeniable guilt will eternally remain for those who one day follow
Upon the crooked path we once we blazed in infamy and delight toward an unfamiliar heaven
Without invitation or provocation to excuse the cliffs we scaled or the sorrow we caused along the way
Our actions will only lead others to follow reaping the same rewards on day soon
Even as we praise our efforts and our plight without question or condolence
In unison alone to a waning moon and our own ideals we will too easily betray
CARMELA ELIZABETH GALGANO
(for my mother who passed away, May 7th, 2009)
BY JAMES A. GALGANO
YOU CANNOT BURY MEMORIES OF HER
EVEN LONG AFTER WE ARE GONE
SUCH A LOVING SMILE AS HERS WILL LINGER ON
AND HER WARM REDEMPTIVE EMBRACE
WILL REMAIN AN ETERNAL ECHO IN OUR MINDS
TO THE POSSIBLE WONDERS OF LIFE
WHICH SURROUND US STILL IN HER ABSENCE
WE WILL NEVER FORGET THE PARENT
WHO BROUGHT US INTO THIS WORLD
FED US, CHANGED US, TAUGHT US
AND LOVED US NO MATTER HOW OLD WE WERE
HERE INNOCENT DEVOTION TO HER BELIEFS
WILL FOREVER BE A MODEL TO ALL WHO FOLLOW
ETERNALLY SHE WILL REMAIN A SAINT, A SINNER,
A COMFORT AND A WONDER, OUR MOTHER
MY MOM JUST DIED
I AM VERY VULNERABLE AND EMOTIONAL AND SORROWFUL
AND IN NEED OF YOUR SACRAMENTAL WARMTH
I HOPE AND PRAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES
ARE IN EXCELLENT HEALTH AND SPIRIT
If the world laid me to rest
Where would I be only but to forever protest
A moment beyond your angelic glow
As if who was I to never to have known
Your blossoming allure filled with infinite potential
Upon your eternal wondrous image or smile
Where these aged eyes are transfixed all the while
In endearing wonder for all angels to sing
About your beguiling beauty from whencc my emotions sing
eternally!
SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDST OF A DISTANT DREAM UNTRUE
TWO STARS DRIFTED CLOSELY INTO AND OUT OF WONDERING VIEW
DRAWN BY THE GRAVITY OF THEIR INCONCLUSIVE INTENT
IMAGINING AS WE ALL SO OFTEN DO THAT THEY WERE HEAVEN SENT
WITH A PURPOSE OTHER THAN WANDERING BY MERE HAPPENSTANCE
THEIR TWO CELESTIAL BODIES DREW THEM UNCOMFORTABLY NEAR
THAT THEY COULD ALMOST TOUCH THE PASSING OF ONESTIMABLE TIME
WHICH PASSED SO QUICKLY BEORE THEM AND DISAPPEARED UNDEFINED
LEAVING THEM WANTING MORE THAN SOME DEITIFIC DESIGN IN SPACE
FOR THEIR ANTHROPORMORPHIC EYES HAD MET, THEY LONGED TO EMBRACE
BUT BEING MERE GASEOUS ENTITIES HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE SO
WHERE WOULD IT LEAD THEM IN THEIR TRAVELS BEYOND THEY DID NOT KNOW
NEVERHTELESS THE DESIRE TO CONNECT CONTINUED TO EXPONENTIALLY GROW
DRAWN TO EACH OTHERS HEAVENLY BODIES AS IF IN A DIVINE UNDERTOW
YET DEEP IN THE BACK OF THEIR IMPENETABLE MINDS THEY KNEW THIS COULD NEVER BE
THUS WHEN YOU LOOK INTO SPACE THEIR CONTINUED TRAVAILS ALONE YOU WILL FOREVER SEE
THIS IS HOW OFTEN ROMANCE CAN BE GRAPHICALLY CONSCRIPTED
WHERE THE DESIRE REMAINS BUT IS NEVER ABLE TO CONNECT DUE TO AGE OR TIME
OR SOMETHING INDESCRIBABLY BETWEEN AS I IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN BOOKS NEVER READ
OR SIGHTS NEVER SEEEN, LIKE WE ALL OFTEN FEEL AT TIMES, AS I F PERSECUTED OR SOME UNKNOWN CRIME
WE WANDER AIMLESSLY IN SEARCH O SOME GUIDING LIGHT, THERE AMONG THOSE IMPOSSIBILITIES
I WILL DREAM OF YOU TONIGHT BEYOND REACH, YET NEVER KNOWING WHY, WE ARE ALL WANDERING STARS WITHIN THIS UNIVERSE A MERE CRUMB IN THE PIE INTE SKY
REACHING FOR THE UNREACHABLE WITHOUT KNOWING WHY OR WHY NOT FOR NO ANSWER WOULD SUFFICE
NEVERTHELESS WE WANDER ALL THE SAME IN HOPES O CONNECTING WITH SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WITHIN THE DISTANCE OF SOME UNGUIDING NIGHT
SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDST OF A DISTANT DREAM UNTRUE
TWO STARS DRIFTED CLOSELY INTO AND OUT OF WONDERING VIEW
DRAWN BY THE GRAVITY OF THEIR INCONCLUSIVE INTENT
IMAGINING AS WE ALL SO OFTEN DO THAT THEY WERE HEAVEN SENT
WITH A PURPOSE OTHER THAN WANDERING BY MERE HAPPENSTANCE
THEIR TWO CELESTIAL BODIES DREW THEM UNCOMFORTABLY NEAR
THAT THEY COULD ALMOST TOUCH THE PASSING OF ONESTIMABLE TIME
WHICH PASSED SO QUICKLY BEORE THEM AND DISAPPEARED UNDEFINED
LEAVING THEM WANTING MORE THAN SOME DEITIFIC DESIGN IN SPACE
FOR THEIR ANTHROPORMORPHIC EYES HAD MET, THEY LONGED TO EMBRACE
BUT BEING MERE GASEOUS ENTITIES HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE SO
WHERE WOULD IT LEAD THEM IN THEIR TRAVELS BEYOND THEY DID NOT KNOW
NEVERHTELESS THE DESIRE TO CONNECT CONTINUED TO EXPONENTIALLY GROW
DRAWN TO EACH OTHERS HEAVENLY BODIES AS IF IN A DIVINE UNDERTOW
YET DEEP IN THE BACK OF THEIR IMPENETABLE MINDS THEY KNEW THIS COULD NEVER BE
THUS WHEN YOU LOOK INTO SPACE THEIR CONTINUED TRAVAILS ALONE YOU WILL FOREVER SEE
THIS IS HOW OFTEN ROMANCE CAN BE GRAPHICALLY CONSCRIPTED
WHERE THE DESIRE REMAINS BUT IS NEVER ABLE TO CONNECT DUE TO AGE OR TIME
OR SOMETHING INDESCRIBABLY BETWEEN AS I IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN BOOKS NEVER READ
OR SIGHTS NEVER SEEEN, LIKE WE ALL OFTEN FEEL AT TIMES, AS I F PERSECUTED OR SOME UNKNOWN CRIME
WE WANDER AIMLESSLY IN SEARCH O SOME GUIDING LIGHT, THERE AMONG THOSE IMPOSSIBILITIES
I WILL DREAM OF YOU TONIGHT BEYOND REACH, YET NEVER KNOWING WHY, WE ARE ALL WANDERING STARS WITHIN THIS UNIVERSE A MERE CRUMB IN THE PIE INTE SKY
REACHING FOR THE UNREACHABLE WITHOUT KNOWING WHY OR WHY NOT FOR NO ANSWER WOULD SUFFICE
NEVERTHELESS WE WANDER ALL THE SAME IN HOPES O CONNECTING WITH SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WITHIN THE DISTANCE OF SOME UNGUIDING NIGHT
So where are the manual directions
To place the eternal hopes of humanity
Through the pinhole of fleeting time
How does one read the map of endless conjecture
To translate each ideal into some sort of reality
Are we truly a species of selfish inclinations
Are we clueless in our needed cause for consideration
Is this the exit call of our too often pro-occupied desires
Or a clarion-call to work together to make each dream come true
Or will we too often be left alone to our own devices in a vacuum
As the unfortunate creatures we cage for individual enjoyment imbued
Within a weary diatribe of why hopes for tomorrow will never be
Based upon our baseless assertions unregulated individuality
Upon a house of cards which our future often seems constructed
Will we be able to overcome these primordial urges or be quickly deconstructed by those who may follow in the ashes of our own self-centered devices
In the name of whatever deity we created to make this nightmare true
In some fleeting hope by continuing on our current path
We will not continued to be lead astray into the abyss
Of what we were never collectively willing to do
to insure each generation which may follow will not suffer
from the sacrifice we are now unwilling to do
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By james a. galgano
Scaling the dark side of an unfamiliar heaven
Where a crooked path of broken dreams guide the way
Toward the unlit tunnel of uncertain tomorrow
Into which our journey often leads without invitation
Filled with unlimited hope, misfortune and inevitably despair
The air grows thin as we scale the cliffs of happiness and sorrow
Our broken hearts and calloused limbs cautiously climb each incline
Like Sisyphus we carry upon our backs the endless memories of time
Unable to forget the station our cross travails beyond each abyss
As we carry the baggage of our species like armor going off to battle
Into an endless war often called for indefensible reasons never refuted
Like loyal warriors of crusade or jihad we move forward without question
Wreaking havoc upon all within our way as if some deity commanded it so
Never caring where our travels lead though we know each claim is disputed
We persevere for that divine offer of eternal rapture and infinite delight
As our weapons of ignominy unable to shield us from the woe we cause
Are turned upon us by the evil we provoke in some deity’s familiar name
While we battle onward and upward scaling heaven’s once joyful heights
Knowing in thee back of our deceitful minds full well the woe
We cause will find its way back into our own precariously protected domain
And no matter how we try to justify our actions in all their horror
The evidence of our undeniable guilt will eternally remain for those who one day follow
Upon the crooked path we once we blazed in infamy and delight toward an unfamiliar heaven
Without invitation or provocation to excuse the cliffs we scaled or the sorrow we caused along the way
Our actions will only lead others to follow reaping the same rewards on day soon
Even as we praise our efforts and our plight without question or condolence
In unison alone to a waning moon and our own ideals we will too easily betray
(for my mother who passed away, May 7th, 2009)
BY JAMES A. GALGANO
YOU CANNOT BURY MEMORIES OF HER
EVEN LONG AFTER WE ARE GONE
SUCH A LOVING SMILE AS HERS WILL LINGER ON
AND HER WARM REDEMPTIVE EMBRACE
WILL REMAIN AN ETERNAL ECHO IN OUR MINDS
TO THE POSSIBLE WONDERS OF LIFE
WHICH SURROUND US STILL IN HER ABSENCE
WE WILL NEVER FORGET THE PARENT
WHO BROUGHT US INTO THIS WORLD
FED US, CHANGED US, TAUGHT US
AND LOVED US NO MATTER HOW OLD WE WERE
HERE INNOCENT DEVOTION TO HER BELIEFS
WILL FOREVER BE A MODEL TO ALL WHO FOLLOW
ETERNALLY SHE WILL REMAIN A SAINT, A SINNER,
A COMFORT AND A WONDER, OUR MOTHER
I AM VERY VULNERABLE AND EMOTIONAL AND SORROWFUL
AND IN NEED OF YOUR SACRAMENTAL WARMTH
I HOPE AND PRAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES
ARE IN EXCELLENT HEALTH AND SPIRIT
I UNDERSTAND IFF YOU AREE HESITANT
PEACE AND LOVE MY DEAREST ONES
JAMES
went to 3 islands with university of san diego
if you have contacts, where i could teach english
that would be very fortunate
whatever
thank you for your reply
i am an special day class teacher in san francisco
my sabbatical begins in september
enjoy your life down there
peace,
james
if you wish add me, i do not know how to do that yet
take care of yourslf heidi
james!
Where would I be only but to forever protest
A moment beyond your angelic glow
As if who was I to never to have known
Your blossoming allure filled with infinite potential
Upon your eternal wondrous image or smile
Where these aged eyes are transfixed all the while
In endearing wonder for all angels to sing
About your beguiling beauty from whencc my emotions sing
eternally!
BY JAMES A. GALGANO
SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDST OF A DISTANT DREAM UNTRUE
TWO STARS DRIFTED CLOSELY INTO AND OUT OF WONDERING VIEW
DRAWN BY THE GRAVITY OF THEIR INCONCLUSIVE INTENT
IMAGINING AS WE ALL SO OFTEN DO THAT THEY WERE HEAVEN SENT
WITH A PURPOSE OTHER THAN WANDERING BY MERE HAPPENSTANCE
THEIR TWO CELESTIAL BODIES DREW THEM UNCOMFORTABLY NEAR
THAT THEY COULD ALMOST TOUCH THE PASSING OF ONESTIMABLE TIME
WHICH PASSED SO QUICKLY BEORE THEM AND DISAPPEARED UNDEFINED
LEAVING THEM WANTING MORE THAN SOME DEITIFIC DESIGN IN SPACE
FOR THEIR ANTHROPORMORPHIC EYES HAD MET, THEY LONGED TO EMBRACE
BUT BEING MERE GASEOUS ENTITIES HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE SO
WHERE WOULD IT LEAD THEM IN THEIR TRAVELS BEYOND THEY DID NOT KNOW
NEVERHTELESS THE DESIRE TO CONNECT CONTINUED TO EXPONENTIALLY GROW
DRAWN TO EACH OTHERS HEAVENLY BODIES AS IF IN A DIVINE UNDERTOW
YET DEEP IN THE BACK OF THEIR IMPENETABLE MINDS THEY KNEW THIS COULD NEVER BE
THUS WHEN YOU LOOK INTO SPACE THEIR CONTINUED TRAVAILS ALONE YOU WILL FOREVER SEE
THIS IS HOW OFTEN ROMANCE CAN BE GRAPHICALLY CONSCRIPTED
WHERE THE DESIRE REMAINS BUT IS NEVER ABLE TO CONNECT DUE TO AGE OR TIME
OR SOMETHING INDESCRIBABLY BETWEEN AS I IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN BOOKS NEVER READ
OR SIGHTS NEVER SEEEN, LIKE WE ALL OFTEN FEEL AT TIMES, AS I F PERSECUTED OR SOME UNKNOWN CRIME
WE WANDER AIMLESSLY IN SEARCH O SOME GUIDING LIGHT, THERE AMONG THOSE IMPOSSIBILITIES
I WILL DREAM OF YOU TONIGHT BEYOND REACH, YET NEVER KNOWING WHY, WE ARE ALL WANDERING STARS WITHIN THIS UNIVERSE A MERE CRUMB IN THE PIE INTE SKY
REACHING FOR THE UNREACHABLE WITHOUT KNOWING WHY OR WHY NOT FOR NO ANSWER WOULD SUFFICE
NEVERTHELESS WE WANDER ALL THE SAME IN HOPES O CONNECTING WITH SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WITHIN THE DISTANCE OF SOME UNGUIDING NIGHT
BY JAMES A. GALGANO
SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDST OF A DISTANT DREAM UNTRUE
TWO STARS DRIFTED CLOSELY INTO AND OUT OF WONDERING VIEW
DRAWN BY THE GRAVITY OF THEIR INCONCLUSIVE INTENT
IMAGINING AS WE ALL SO OFTEN DO THAT THEY WERE HEAVEN SENT
WITH A PURPOSE OTHER THAN WANDERING BY MERE HAPPENSTANCE
THEIR TWO CELESTIAL BODIES DREW THEM UNCOMFORTABLY NEAR
THAT THEY COULD ALMOST TOUCH THE PASSING OF ONESTIMABLE TIME
WHICH PASSED SO QUICKLY BEORE THEM AND DISAPPEARED UNDEFINED
LEAVING THEM WANTING MORE THAN SOME DEITIFIC DESIGN IN SPACE
FOR THEIR ANTHROPORMORPHIC EYES HAD MET, THEY LONGED TO EMBRACE
BUT BEING MERE GASEOUS ENTITIES HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE SO
WHERE WOULD IT LEAD THEM IN THEIR TRAVELS BEYOND THEY DID NOT KNOW
NEVERHTELESS THE DESIRE TO CONNECT CONTINUED TO EXPONENTIALLY GROW
DRAWN TO EACH OTHERS HEAVENLY BODIES AS IF IN A DIVINE UNDERTOW
YET DEEP IN THE BACK OF THEIR IMPENETABLE MINDS THEY KNEW THIS COULD NEVER BE
THUS WHEN YOU LOOK INTO SPACE THEIR CONTINUED TRAVAILS ALONE YOU WILL FOREVER SEE
THIS IS HOW OFTEN ROMANCE CAN BE GRAPHICALLY CONSCRIPTED
WHERE THE DESIRE REMAINS BUT IS NEVER ABLE TO CONNECT DUE TO AGE OR TIME
OR SOMETHING INDESCRIBABLY BETWEEN AS I IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN BOOKS NEVER READ
OR SIGHTS NEVER SEEEN, LIKE WE ALL OFTEN FEEL AT TIMES, AS I F PERSECUTED OR SOME UNKNOWN CRIME
WE WANDER AIMLESSLY IN SEARCH O SOME GUIDING LIGHT, THERE AMONG THOSE IMPOSSIBILITIES
I WILL DREAM OF YOU TONIGHT BEYOND REACH, YET NEVER KNOWING WHY, WE ARE ALL WANDERING STARS WITHIN THIS UNIVERSE A MERE CRUMB IN THE PIE INTE SKY
REACHING FOR THE UNREACHABLE WITHOUT KNOWING WHY OR WHY NOT FOR NO ANSWER WOULD SUFFICE
NEVERTHELESS WE WANDER ALL THE SAME IN HOPES O CONNECTING WITH SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WITHIN THE DISTANCE OF SOME UNGUIDING NIGHT
By james a galgano
So where are the manual directions
To place the eternal hopes of humanity
Through the pinhole of fleeting time
How does one read the map of endless conjecture
To translate each ideal into some sort of reality
Are we truly a species of selfish inclinations
Are we clueless in our needed cause for consideration
Is this the exit call of our too often pro-occupied desires
Or a clarion-call to work together to make each dream come true
Or will we too often be left alone to our own devices in a vacuum
As the unfortunate creatures we cage for individual enjoyment imbued
Within a weary diatribe of why hopes for tomorrow will never be
Based upon our baseless assertions unregulated individuality
Upon a house of cards which our future often seems constructed
Will we be able to overcome these primordial urges or be quickly deconstructed by those who may follow in the ashes of our own self-centered devices
In the name of whatever deity we created to make this nightmare true
In some fleeting hope by continuing on our current path
We will not continued to be lead astray into the abyss
Of what we were never collectively willing to do
to insure each generation which may follow will not suffer
from the sacrifice we are now unwilling to do
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