Centre-Faith

(while dreams swirl all-around)

Soothsayers and seers and shamans

have children, have the same

rising and falling stars,

cannot say “This is truth”

“This will happen”

There is only God’s voice in the now,

leading to the next step and only

that step until the voice comes again.

Even in times of constant accepted prophecies,

the intelligent threw their crystals,

took notes of the pattern

but balked at the interpreters.

Journeys to the Navel-stone were daily –

whore-kings and crushed-citizens

sacrificed animals and even slaughtered

their own offspring

on the advice they were told.

But God is one

and God is permanent

and us,

being tied to time,

are not privy to visions into the future, no vision exact –

we are all equally blind, and that blindness

is a gift that opens the door to faith,

free-falling in our days,

fortunes and misfortunes,

arms open to God’s ways and grace,

open like a painter choosing his colours

like a poet, her words.

Open

ecstasy in the listening,

surrender in the execution,

gleaming, gloriously summoned

into immediacy, into an all-demanding

autonomy.

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Copyright © 2020 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Synchronized Chaos” September 2020

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Glory, believe

Glory, believe

the evidence is clear,

brought to a boil and

now boiling over.

World molested by greed,

indifference and distraction.

The pitch has elevated to burst

the eardrums. Scavengers are

scavenging and nothing is left.

Old ranks topple, protection is

a thin veil, fear overcomes prayers,

prayers that kept us sane.

Children and animals are the new Earth’s aristocracy,

Bless this time of turmoil – setting

everything upside down, right side up.

Jesus still walks the barren roads,

sandals in one hand,

at ease with whatever is to come.

Let me walk – a servant

yet absolutely free to not serve.

Let me make an oath to the celestial night,

an oath to replace panic with faith and

uncertainty with light everlasting.

I see the light everlasting,

the wheel that is not a wheel

but a sphere.

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Copyright © 2020 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Synchronized Chaos” September 2020

http://synchchaos.com/synchronized-chaos-september-2020-mercy-and-fragility/

http://synchchaos.com/poetry-from-allison-grayhurst-11/

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The light has gone out.

Nothing is plenty or even sufficient.

The door opens, but there is no escape

just the long wait under an isolated sun,

walled up in fear and deficiency.

It could have been completed, sealed

into the account but darkness hammered

the blush from blooming, and yes, the lesson

to see was written on the Stonehenge, in

the past lives in an ancient Athenian tribe or

when setting five-alarm fires on the moon

when you were a golden muscle, ripe

and violently ending anything soft.

Greed gave you all the cards, opinions that

lacked a spiritual dimension. It will not come

until this ecstasy is laid flat.

You see – O Tantalus!

You see the stain that created your torment, unearthed.

Walk on it, shed its blood and let it bleed out

its deeply embedded drive and expectation.

Hell is individually formed,

a private backyard betrayal.

Walk into the shower,

let it cascade down and dissolve this last

unseen-before glitch – see it, wide-eyed

and say ‘forgive me’ say it and

be free.

Copyright © 2020 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Synchronized Chaos” September 2020

http://synchchaos.com/synchronized-chaos-september-2020-mercy-and-fragility/

http://synchchaos.com/poetry-from-allison-grayhurst-11/

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