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burning free of nightmares

Linda M. Crate

i won’t be rewritten
stripped of my voice and my power
all my life men have feared and hated me
because i refused to be the standard
miss swooning and pining over them simply
because they were attractive

i had a quiet confidence even when i was at
my most shy in high school
hiding myself in the chapters of books
they never understood me,
and they never even attempted to;

constantly bullied because i was not the status quo
i wanted to be anyone but me before i realized
that was a waste of who i was
wanted to be popular and pretty like the cool kids
no one thought to mock—

i began to see, though, that weird wasn’t
the insult they meant but rather a compliment;
and i wouldn’t let them insult me with it any more
because i knew my heart was full of love and light
wouldn’t let the nightmares conquer my dreams.

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