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 make you proud
Linda M. Crate
to the child i never met:
i love you,
and one day i will forgive
myself for the past
but today’s not that day;
i just want you to
know that none of this was your
fault and maybe
we’ll be lucky enough to meet
in the next life—
don’t mistake me for not caring
even if it is hard for me to talk about
your existence
it says nothing about you
some memories are just painful,
and i hope one day to
make you proud.
