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Impossible, Only Possible

Way

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If you can make me better

than this bag of rage.

If you can calm my madness

and raise it ten octaves higher,

massage this grief from my belly, help

me look forward, dig me out of this sand pit, allow

me the strength to be better than who I am – then this death

will be but another movement, this betrayal and shock, only

a further stepping stone to rapture, resurrection.

Forgiveness would be mine, alchemizing my blood.

I could look with love on all this pain and know for certain

that my life is in your hands.

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Copyright © 2010 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Indiana Voice Journal, The Grace Issue #16 ” November 2015

http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/2015/11/indiana-voice-journal-novemberdecember.html

http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/2015/11/three-poems-by-allison-grayhurst.html

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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.

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