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)
i’ll never regret you
Linda M. Crate
spring is the season of rebirth and renewal. i washed myself clean of your father’s trespasses and forgave him even though he was not sorry for all the ways he hurt me. i regret him, but never you. because you could not help your existence, and i wouldn’t want to have never known you. because as painful as this is, i’m glad to say you reminded me how to feel again when i felt numb and cold you melted away the winter your father gave me and reminded me of spring and summer and autumn. maybe one day in another world under a different sun and moon i will play in the rain with you, swim at the beach, and rake leaves for you to jump into; and should your father’s winter capture you give you hot chocolate to melt away the cold.
