We Deserve More

We Deserve More

written by: Linda M. Crate

@thysilverdoe

what is the value of a human heart?
i don’t know if that can truly
be measured,
yet i know our worthiness is more
than what we oft receive;

corporations and politicians are greedy
and they’ll both have you feeling meaningless
if you measure yourself by the impossible
standards of the world—

a person should be measured not by their career
or political influence but rather by how
they make people feel, what they do for others,
how they treat others, if they hold themselves
accountable when they make mistakes, and if
they are truly sorry and sincere when they apologize
for the harm they’ve caused—

i just know i was meant for more than this world
of theirs they insist is the only reality we could know,
i have seen a better world in my dreams and i will get there;

because i deserve more than this—most of us do.

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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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