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i will live

Linda M. Crate

your mother was constantly offended
by me:
what i wore, what i said, if i talked
or if i didn’t speak;
i couldn’t win for losing
so when i lost you
it wasn’t as big a tragedy as i first thought—
because if i am to love
it will be a man,
and not a boy like you;
stuck in the cogs of a machine of people pleasing
you can’t see how foolish you are
consider yourself a saint and a genius
but you are neither—
i couldn’t live life the way you do
always afraid of offending someone because i am
not going to wax and wan into nothingness
like my moon mother
i am going to crash like her moodiest of waves
crash a few egos if i have to
because life is not meant to be lived in closed doors,
and i have had enough of keeping my toes
in line and walking on egg shells
they can choke on the yolk of my dreams if they must
i am me and that’s all i ever could be;
there will be no apology
for that.

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