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)
losing you
Linda M. Crate
“your pain will make you stronger”
i wouldn’t wish this sorrow
upon anyone
not even my worst enemy
for the shattering
of one’s eternal soul and it’s reconstruction
is a painful melody
sung against
the moon and stars and skies of this world
it’s like a mermaid walking upon land
aching for nothing more than the sea beneath her
instead of this wretched glass,
and though i am better
not bitter
i will always think of you;
and the only regret i have is losing you even if it
were or were not my fault—
it hurts, sometimes, to think of you
because i miss you;
i now know it’s possibly to miss someone
you’ve never met but only felt
in your heart—
while this pain only serves to make me stronger
i do wish it didn’t come at the price
of losing you.
