In The Name

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Allison Grayhurst

In The Name

With the northern tide he came

like a bride to her first wedded kiss.

Born without enemies or pride,

he drank the flame of God. Soon

he was a legend and all the world

would praise his name like an unfriendly

habit. Some knew his word like

bread, like a babe that needed constant

tending. Some would hear and then in years, turn

back to join the assembly of conflicting voices,

pulling behind them the weighted shadows of so many

engulfing concerns.

I am one who heard and lost, who felt my blood

renewed and then ingested the virus of adulthood

and all its houses made of paper.

I lived with a rotted passion, with a sterile faith

and a heart so tight and annoyed.

This is a remembrance of the thirst

he cured.

I am saved again by the shrilling cut of his love

and by the tender stream of his great pity.

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First published in “Malevolent Pegasus Literary Zine”, November 2015

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