A GIFT OF SELF
BY JAMES A. GALGANO
 
I   DO NOT
HAVE THE WORLD TO GIVE YOU
YOU WOULD HAVE IT ALL IF I DID
ALL I HAVE NOW IS TO GIVE YOU IS MYSELF
A LIFE TO LOVE AND A LOVE TO LIVE
 
IT MAY NOT SEEM THAT MUCH TO YOU
BUT YOU SEE IT IS ALL, I CAN CALL MY OWN
TO YOU I GIVE IT ALL TO YOU WILLINGLY
MY LOVE TO SHELTER YOU ALONE
MY LIFE FOREVER TO BE YOUR ETERNAL HOME
 
I ASK OF YOU NOTHING MORE IN RETURN
BUT ASSUREDLY WITHOUT YOUR LOVE I WOULD DIE
I CAN NOT ASK YOU TO LOVE ME
BECAUSE IT 
IS  ON YOUR OWN YOU MUST  TRY
AND IT   IS
ON MY KNEES IN PRAYER  I CRY
 
I   DO NOT
HAVE MUCH MORE TO PROMISE YOU
BUT YOU WOULD HAVE IT AL L IF  I  DID
AS   FOR   NOW ALL I CAN GIVE YOU IS MYSELF
A LIFE TO LOVE AND A LOVE TO LIVE

Angel
face 
By james a. galgano 
Swept through my heart leaving only memories and
dust 
Consorting with my soul surrendering my heart and
my trust 
Subjugated my desires one my age should only read
about in books 
Captivating each emotion until it became undying
devotion 
Lost upon some once undiscovered ocean of
seemingly endless delight 
Adrift within her warm embrace and each delicious
taste 
Savoring every moment together as if it would
never end 
Without laying my soul to waste as reality
backhanded my delusion 
Leaving me once upon a time to regret having ever
kissed her angel face 
Left alone to aimlessly wonder how one moment of
indiscretion 
Could be so cherished yet so disparate in by
ill-prepared design 
To reconnoiter in the aftermath how this could end
this way 
Left alone with all bridges burning preventing
escape to a better day 
Where fairy tales come true in endless rhyme and
reason 
While in reality the taste still lingers and her
scent still confines 
Dreams of what might have been had the