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)
a mother’s pride
Linda M. Crate
you were a song that i never got to sing out loud, but i still sing you now. it’s hard to talk of you when i think of all i’ve lost. i gave my heart, soul, flowers, and pearls to a man who could not appreciate the significance or consequence of this gift. he would have made a poor father, but i would have been both parents for your sake. i would have found a way to make it work. it may have been hard, but i would make sure you knew that you were cherished. i loved you then, i love you still. always have and always will. you are the jewel of my most intense love, and your presence would have lit the lanterns of my dreams. i would have made you proud to know me, and i will make you proud just as you would have made me proud.
