You’re Gone
written by: Linda M. Crate
i keep seeking you in
other emotionally unavailable
people,
i remember once we were
thick as thieves;
sunshine shone bright
and the promise of tomorrow
seemed so vibrant that i couldn’t
picture a world where you & i
weren’t friends—
then all of a sudden there
was nothing,
there were no phone calls
or letters or emails or happy
birthdays on social media;
suddenly we were nothing—
i think i’m done searching for you,
for i have finally realized you are gone
and you’re not coming back;
no matter how hard i wish you would
or could.
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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