Sunday, May 19, 2019

I WILL NEVER KNOW THEIR RUIN by Linda Crate


I WILL NEVER KNOW THEIR RUIN
Linda Crate

I like being in the creekfeeling the cool water wash away painful memories and paint me in the same hues as the beautiful creek gems; everything is green and blue and every shade of gold that isn't arrogant—in that momentI am told who I truly am; daughter of the wood, Valkyrie of love and light, queen of dreams, divine entity of magic—And now that I know who I truly am. I will not let them take me my voice or power. I am divine and I am sacred and I am powerful; they will not erase who I am from my knowledge or my history— I will shine on wearing the immortal wings of the phoenix, fashioning myself from chaos from the ashes; I will never know their ruin.






Linda M. Crate's works have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies both in print and online. She is the author of six published chapbooks the latest of which was titled More Than Bone Music (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, March 2019), a microchap, and the novel Phoenix Tears (Cyzkmate Books, June 2018).