Someone told me I was Queen of _____
So I hit the pavement with
nothing but the
shoes on my feet and
two middle fingers.
I followed black wings and
learned how to prey.
I communed with rivers and
willows and
winds of change.
I defied a mountain and
slept at its summit.
I made the day blush and
trained the night to genuflect.
Someone told me I was Queen of _____
So I hit the pavement with
nothing but the
shoes on my feet and
two middle fingers.
I returned home,
not Queen of fucking Nothing;
I returned
Commander of My Heart.
Kindra M. Austin is an indie author (her books can be found here, a founding member of Indie Blu(e), and a writer/managing editor at Sudden Denouement, Blood Into Ink, and Whisper and the Roar. A Sagittarius Valkyrie from the state of Michigan, she likes craft beer, and classic big block muscle cars. You can find her filing through the souls of the slain at poems and paragraphs.