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
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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