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).
no questions ever asked
let me be as happy
as a lark,
or a crow
singing happiness
in october;
let me dance in creeks
washing away centuries of
pain and anger and worries—
nature always welcomes
me in all of my feral,
wild, and weird;
never has she judged me
or insisted i change—
let the moon give me
her wisdom,
and let the sun kiss me
with warmth as if i am a flower
in a state of blooming;
let the rain be kind not cold—
all i have ever wanted was
to be loved,
and nature loves me as i am;
no questions ever asked.
