my heart’s music
written by: Linda M. Crate
@thysilverdoe
my heart is a broken thing
yet it still makes music,
has a voice,
and reminds me to persevere
when i want to cave in;
it’d be easier to forget my dreams
to cave into the zombie apocalypse
glazed eyed and forgetting
never recalling my name or my purpose—
but i cannot
i have a heart, and a purpose;
a magic, a beauty, a worth
i am divine and powerful and i will use
my wounds to make myself stronger
until the scars no longer bleed
because i am a powerhouse
i will never fail
my dreams and heart will lead the way
through all my struggles until paradise is tangible
and not just another dream away.
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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