Because I love you

Because I love you

like the humpback does its song,

I grow by caring for you

and your unfair burden.

A golden daughter, bells in your hair

and a richness in your eyes. I have

all fortune at my door and my only wish

is to peel away your cloud of illness and brighten

your ground. I only see a fine gem’s rays reflected

on your skin. I only dream of your dissolved chains –

miles around you of only childish concerns.

I hold your hand as we walk the corridors, tracing

footprints down the hospital halls. Your touch

tells me it is for us to be proud of one another,

to be thankful for this gift that has strengthened our bond.

Your touch is music – your words are as old as the sea.

The fire around you

is a bird. It will perch, nest and then next season,

it will be gone.

Your journey is into the hail storm. But you will be healed,

and I will go on loving you like I love you

like the humpback does its song.

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Published in “Poetry at Sangam” March 2018

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First published in “The Galway Review”

Allison Grayhurst – Five Poems

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“Allison Grayhurst intertwines a potent spirituality throughout her work so that each poem is not simply a statement or observation, but a revelation that demands the reader’s personal involvement. Grayhurst’s poetic genius is profound and evident. Her voice is uniquely authentic, undeniable in its dignified vulnerability as it is in its significance,” Kyp Harness, singer/songwriter, author.

“Allison Grayhurst’s poems are like cathedrals witnessing and articulating in unflinching graphic detail the gritty angst and grief of life, while taking it to rare clarity, calm and comfort. Grayhurst’s work is haunting, majestic and cleansing, often leaving one breathless in the wake of its intelligence, hope, faith and love amidst the muck of life. Many of Allison Grayhurst’s poems are simply masterpieces. Grayhurst’s poetry is a lighthouse of intelligent honour… indeed, intelligence rips through her work like white water,” Taylor Jane Green, Registered Spiritual Psychotherapist and author.

Review of ‘The Many Lights of Eden’:
“’The Many Lights of Eden’ is a journey: a journey of the heart through youth, anguish, struggle, spiritual awakening, grief, death, love, loss, guilt, struggle, despair, hope, surrender, God, sensuality, imperfection, motherhood, aging, the vanquishing of the devil, indeed, many devils, the inevitable fall from perfection and the casting off of old wineskins for a new one. Perhaps speaking of this book as a chronicle of spiritual maturing would be more accurate, the realization that there is spirituality within imperfection and that handmade temples cannot hope to compete with the spiritual temples within each of us. ‘The Many Lights of Eden’ is a diamond. It is a beautiful collection of insights. Allison Grayhurst’s thoughts and writings are a deep well. Drink from it, for the water is clear and crisp. This collection is a MUST-READ,” Eric M. Vogt, author of Letters to Lara and Paths and Pools to Ponder.