Keep On Moving

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Allison Grayhurst

Keep On Moving

It is not over

though the wood is wedded to the ground.

It is not over when we rise

to find a flood around our house

and see the empty schoolbus.

There are miracles that fill the barren fields,

and in the slaughteryard

somehow God must give love.

Sex has lost its purity and starlight has

slipped far below the waves.

But still the goal is to be consciously free,

to be the truth we were given.

The goal is to let other people’s thoughts die to our own,

to befriend the ever tightening noose of time.

It is hard to travel free of ghosts,

integrated as the sky.

It is hard as the stones we pocket and the secrets

we carry into our sleep, holding

our entrance into the coming day.

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Published in “Eos – The Creative Context” September 2017

3 Poems by Allison Grayhurst; photo by Bea Garth

First published in “SpinRock Reader Lit Forum” November 2015

SpinRock Reader Lit November four 2

http://spinrockreader.blogspot.ca/2015/11/keep-on-moving-poem-by-allison-grayhurst.html

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