Union
Do you love me,
or is your love
too magnificent
against my failed and hapless
virtue, fetus-formed,
barely pulsing but trying
to flesh out and depict details
in contrast, in a fundamental form?
Do you hear me,
as a mosquito-buzz nuisance
to your bright and flawless grandeur,
or is my deficient faith worth
the encounter, evoking your mercy?
Do I know you
at all or only as a dream
of being engaged to your
wild erupting
lava-flow inspiration,
to the hot touch of your tenderness
here and here
and my heart and self
at one, at peace
fastened to your love,
receptor of your astonishing
calypso flavour?
Copyright © 2022 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “Raven Cage Zine #70” June 2022
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k1ATf0K_B97oxYPMjFHU4NBm2nLt9xrs/view
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Lovely poem Allison.