wishing for light
written by: Linda M. Crate
@thysilverdoe
today’s a bad day
dizzying
i don’t feel confident,
and i don’t like me;
want to crawl out of these bones
my confidence is low
nothing seems to be going my way—
don’t want to hear some
euphemism about how everything
is going to be okay
because today it feels as if i were
to pull myself from this realm into another one
that’s the only way i’d be okay,
and maybe tomorrow i’ll feel fine but right now
i don’t have much of a spine;
all i know is the overwhelming feeling of anxiety and a shattered ego
limping around with one wing i try to fly
but today remembering my magic is hard so i stay here
in this place of darkness
wishing for light.
Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has three published chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon - January 2014), and If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016). Her fantasy novel Blood & Magic was published in March 2015. The second novel of this series Dragons & Magic was published in October 2015. The third of the seven book series Centaurs & Magic was published November 2016. Her novel Corvids & Magic was published March 2017.
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