[Poem-a-Week] i will never forgive it by Linda M. Crate

i remember when
the bus driver told me
she liked your flowers,
thinking that they were
ours instead;

how i wish you were still here
blooming like those flowers did
in such lovely and vibrant colors—

but the world isn't always fair,
if it were you would've never gotten sick;

brain cancer is cruel just as 
most cancers are—but that is the one
that took you ten days after our birthday,
and even though it's not a person;
i will never forgive it for the crime of taking
away someone so beautiful from my life.

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Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has twelve published chapbooks the latest being: Searching Stained Glass Windows For An Answer (Alien Buddha Publishing, December 2022). Her debut book of photography Songs of the Creek (Alien Buddha Publishing, April 2023) was published in spring of 2023. 

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