Disney got it wrongi needed your support,
but you denied me any axil to support my flowers let me fall into the darkness of myself; i couldn't breath being dragged beneath the sea you never seemed to care-- you splintered me with your inherited pain and rage you could have broken the cycle, but insisted on carving and hacking into me with all the songs of your pain; and you rubbed my past in my face when i asked you if i ever did that to you your reply was: "not you, but others have" that doesn't make it right to treat me with such little regard-- i was the little girl who needed a father, but instead you gave me a bully; you gave me no sense of belonging and made me feel as if i were a burden to everyone i loved proving to me that disney got it wrong with all their wicked stepmothers because stepfathers are wicked, as well. |
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Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh, raised in Conneautville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has five published chapbooks the latest of which is splintered with terror (Scars Publications, January 2018).