You make me want to sing.

MADE BY RACHEL SANDERFORD 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 101

You make me want to sing

And I’ve been told I can’t carry a tune

You make me want to cook

And I’ve tasted my food

You make me want to reach out and comfort you

And I’ve been called cold-hearted

You make me believe in happy endings

And I’ve only ever known tragedies

You scare me

And I don’t scare easy

But what you really do is

you don’t make me into anything

But who I was always meant to be

Who I always truly was

RACHEL SANDERFORD

My mother has asked me why I don’t write happy stories, but to me, they always end in some kind of happiness. I have a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Before Emerson I was with the New Orleans Writers Workshop.

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