enjoy this Linda M. Crate writing
in the free 2016 PDF file chapbook: If Tomorrow
Never Comes
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
death, birth, & reincarnation
Linda M. Crate
i have died
a thousand times
reconstructing myself from the pieces
of whom i was to make myself
who i needed to be,
a rebirth and a reincarnation of myself
each time stronger the last
as I forge myself
fashioning
myself into the best me i could possibly be;
but your death came with an air
of permanence
my womb becoming both your birth and death
all at once—
i think one day in another world
we’ll meet,
and i’ll nurture your growth and dreams
we’ll dream together
making new yesterdays into our tomorrows
reincarnating ourselves until death’s sting can no
longer destroy.
