by Grace Tompkins | Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
you might find this strange, odd even- but I don’t think you like me. I think you tolerate me, because I’m there. I ramble or I’m not enough. Because everything I do isn’t enough. And you might ask why I feel that way, and I would have to be honest. There are days...
by Grace Tompkins | Nov 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
The ink of my words is all of me. The ink I use to write my poetry is my tears, my blood, my hurts. My pages are like my skin. the nib digs deeply as I write my history. My writings only tell my story, or so I thought. Words bring people down, sentences can bring...
by Grace Tompkins | Oct 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
Let me start by saying this, I am Anorexic, I have been for a year. Anorexia is an eating disorder that means you use methods of starvation and excessive exercise to not gain weight and/or lose weight. It comes from a fear of gaining weight. I developed Anorexia...
by Grace Tompkins | Oct 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
She stumbles, so very much. Somehow she gets by, is it luck? She tries to handle it all, she can find the time. It doesn’t matter if she’s got a million things already on her mind. She carries the weight, of a burden, she wears thin Her arms giving out, the...
by Grace Tompkins | Oct 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
An Evergreen Plant is known for staying green all year. To me, there’s a beauty in that. I find myself in the middle of a contrast- I’m drowning in my own fears, but I’m struggling in a drought. I’m more then surviving day by day, full of my own doubt. I want to live,...
