by Grace Tompkins | Jan 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
To share about this year, I could mention achievements, or changes; for good or for worse. I could share the ups and downs, the days that lasted a little longer spent within my home. I could mention the shared struggle of an earth unable to turn as it did as the...
by Grace Tompkins | Oct 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
I have been wandering these halls for hours- for years I know each curve and corner like the veins on my hands. Every scratch on the wall like the scars on my skin. I am this place; and it is I. The worn faces that make themselves in the walls greet me, they laugh...
by Grace Tompkins | May 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
I don’t like to write love poems anymoreIt’s just useless lyrical nonsenseDisplaying blind devotionOld words rooted in lost emotionKindling for the next flameBringing with it old painI much rather spend my timeWriting adoration for the world around meFor the birds,...
by Grace Tompkins | Apr 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
A wave washes over me My field of existence rocked The plane in which I live upon a catalyst of sorts My heartbeat slows as I fade away drifting from reality Into my mind, I stay worlds form with a single thought my tongue caught on the snags of beautiful words lost...
by Grace Tompkins | Feb 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
My Desire consume me In my dreams they find me, I’m lost in you The Idea of loving you It’s too much I can’t do this; I can’t do this I’m all consumed My everything working against me Every fiber of my being giving me Explanations of why You and I should be I can’t do...
