by Grace Tompkins | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
You’re on my mind Almost all the time I’m so far away From where you stay My heart beats heavy in my chest If missing you is a marathon Then I’ve beat my personal best I must confess I look for you when the stars are out Through my search, to this mystery I’m devout...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
The fan Swirls above my head Long hours laying in my bed I trace the shadows on my wall Throughout my room they Stand so tall Swallowed in darkness, My spirit only remains Even in my hour of crisis I try to stay tame Death entices with it’s everlong retort In...
by Grace Tompkins | Dec 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Water drips from the facet ‘drip… drip’ Drips become a pour, and a pour becomes a bath. Water rises gently, with great gusto. The shade of a clear blue, much like the water that tickles your feet at the shore. There is a serenity, where you find water, an ocean of...
by Grace Tompkins | Dec 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
My heart beating fast, I somehow fell in love with you so fast And I think to myself, I haven’t known you long But in my life, I hope you belong Late at night, I wish you were awake You’re a thief, With one smile my heart is yours to take when you leave, I miss you...
by Grace Tompkins | Dec 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Written by Marysa Writes I’ve come to the conclusion that my mind is a house, never a home. A two bedroom for a family of five, hallways always empty despite the parties my thoughts throw every night. I’m never the host, an uninvited guest thrust into the chaos that...
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,...
