by Linda M. Crate
i don’t languish in the fact that i met you,
but i do regret that i couldn’t see through
the gauzy fabric of your lies;
but a starving heart is so hungry she’ll devour
anything that she hears
so it was with you—
i fell so hard and fast that i could not stop
my love grew tall and fast as weeds,
and it wouldn’t stop building
itself higher and higher;
as it did
your disgust of me seemed to rise
like the tide of an angry ocean
i didn’t notice
until it was too late—
i wasn’t the one that you needed,
but like the elephant i don’t forget;
i’ll remember every wound and scar
forever
i’ll remember the love i have for you
even when it is more a hindrance than a help—
but i know i need not exact revenge
the universe in it’s infinite knowledge will outwit
you in ways i would never think to,
and karma will have the last laugh.
Linda M. Crate‘s poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has five published chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press, June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon, January 2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016), My Wings Were Made to Fly (Flutter Press, September 2017), and splintered with terror (Scars Publications, January 2018), and one micro-chapbook Heaven Instead (Origami Poems Project, May 2018). She is also the author of the novel Phoenix Tears (Czykmate Books, June 2018).
(And don’t forget to check out Linda’s poem sometimes ravens conquer wolves. – Elephants Never)