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dead cold moon

Allison Grayhurst

Lay it to rest, accept
it like gravity or the
flight that lasts only moments
before a fall.
Excuses made to maintain the shrine of inward pressure,
voyaging to the harbor then back out to sea, never
touching shore or dipping a foot into the ocean.
I tried to make a quarantined country, a library
of unreal tales, a mythology without leaven.
Spear-headed, tossing, unwrapped and wailing
before a shattered creation. Playing unnoticed.
It is dark. Too many rulers burnt by stubborn commitments.
Children give courage to each other, mountains bleed.
Resting is replenishing, ambition is irrevocably removed.
I am nothing but God’s child.
I am nothing except when living
with consciousness that I am
God’s child - servant on a dead cold moon
a servant saved
(burning still)
on that dead cold moon.

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