I WILL NEVER KNOW THEIR RUIN
Linda Crate
I like being in the creek, feeling 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 moment, I 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).
