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i want to be the dream, not the nightmare

Linda M. Crate

i don’t want all of this anger
just the kind that enforces good things
to happen and good change to happen,
but all this left over anger
is exhausting;

everything i feel is so intense, so deep
deeper than the fathomless depths of the sea;
passionate and mad my heart is a savage garden
i want to be compassionate enough to give
mostly flowers

but people mostly inspire me to strike out
with my thorns and fashion my tongue as the sword
that impales them—
i am fierce and rebellious and unwilling to change
who i am for the sake of anyone

because i know as ugly as i can be there is a beauty
in my scars, and i have a love and a light in me that shines
brighter than this incandescent rage
a beauty, a magic, and dreams of worth that
bloom within the hands of my flowers;

why won’t anyone let me be that girl?
they never seem to take me seriously until i’ve lost my temper
slaying them in the anguish of their wounds as
i salt them,
and i don’t understand why they prefer the nightmare of me to the dream.



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