by Grace Tompkins | Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
A dark, lifeless ceilingFacing back to meA reflection, the deep voidOf wanting, clouding all I can see Honey coffee,The sweetness of your lipsDeeply, longinglyI wish you would come to me Emptiness,pulling the strings of my heartThe absence of this...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Oh, to be loved as Orpheus loved EurydiceOne in which he felt could not be placed in Patience’s handsIn defiance of fate, driven by his longingSo hungry for the taste of his lover again The beauty in the tragic storyRests not in reunion;But in such an actOf...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
For 18 years of my lifeI’ve wanted to make a mark I’ve falteredAnd sized myself downScared to leave an impact – A trace of myselfOn someone, on something Too scared to put the brush to the canvasFor being known is a great, terrifying thing...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I wrote my last post a year ago today, I didn’t quite expect to not return to my blog for a whole year. I’m sure at the time i had big plans for the blog, for posts and series. Reading through my goals and resolutions I set in that post, there are certaintly a...
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...
