Onward
Becoming passes into being,
and heightened intensity
is restored – every moment,
alert and bearing anxiety
for the reasonable necessity it is,
in this time, this coming year
of upheaval and uncertainty.
No joy will ever exceed the joy
found when the light restored in your eyes,
and your arms embraced mine from the
hospital bed where you lay in a blue cloak
with tubes and needles, and your mind, finally aware,
your heart, at once fragile with shock and fear,
but vital, perpetual in its outpouring love.
Beautiful son, 18, eclipsing every ideal
with your innate wisdom, compassion and energy,
leaping in youthful courageous commitment, tough
where you need to be, strong and accomplished, kind
like the sun is kind by rising, and the hawk
as it flies overhead calling, driving home the mystery
and the majesty of the dream.
Copyright © 2021 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “Atunis Galaxy Poetry and anthology” March 2021, August 2021
https://atunispoetry.com/2021/03/19/allison-grayhurst-canada/
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Published in “Synchronized Chaos” April 2021
http://synchchaos.com/synchronized-chaos-april-2021-escape-room/
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