I'm Different? So What? by Linda M. Crate

i am a raven

talons and beak and feathers

a thousand dreams 

on the horizon

to chase and catch

i am building myself up on clouds and

ambition,

but all you can see is that i am different;

all you can say is that i should

stand in line with 

everyone else and conform,

but i've never had any interest in being like

everyone else

i am me;

that's all i could ever afford to be

as they live in their glass houses with their noses held high

they are the wind signifying sound and fury

but they lost their meaning

a thousand moons ago

i'll always have 

mine—

like the jabberwocky slain by alice

you will become nothing

as i destroy you under the crushing fang of oblivion 

chasing all my dreams turning them into successes.

Linda M. Crate is the author of the Magic Series and has many poems, short stories, reviews, and essays published both online and in print.