A Love Like No Other – A Poem by Allison Grayhurst

Your steady love has saved me,
one more dark wave rising and you
hold my hand, staying the course,
sharing with me your glowing inspiration,
giving me space to expose
my gruesome wounds within.
You do not flinch, or distract, but give me room
to writhe and cry out and then you look at me,
love in your eyes like God at my table,
offering water, acceptance,
and with that acceptance, untellable mercy.

Every night you read to me to keep me afloat,
to cup me in the flow of your voice
reminding me why we are here.
I think you will leave me, here
to implode in this over-a-year pit
of me climbing up to the edges, falling back in,
collapsing on bedrock, but you never do.
You stay and you are steady
and you are a miracle, patient, never
cursing your fate, never letting me go.

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