by Grace Tompkins | Feb 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
I never knew what to call youA lover, or a friendMost nights it felt as ifI was just playing pretendWe were two strangersIntertwined in the darkYou were always just an echoA shadow walking around in a haunted cityYou left meA ghost, moving away from the...
by Grace Tompkins | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
I know you and I were not meant for each other ,A fatal pairing, a poison ever so sweetA death sentence for a stolen kiss, a lasting glanceA careless happenstance We are not starcrossed loversSomething that never came to be,A daydream, a lifeless fantasyA wordless...
by Grace Tompkins | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Is this how it ends? Another love wasted-Put away in the closest, tidy and quietlyTo never live in my heart againTo only exist in these wordsWithin Lines of poetry, to recite and reflect?Each verse an echoing remnantOf what you meant to me Goodbye, my loveWe’ve...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Look across these watersAnd gaze upon meMy reflection, left by itselfThe wreckageFrom the knife sitting on my shelfTorn and tatterned,a seam has come looseUnraveling, followingA loose thread leaving the remains of youthI once was myselfbut I’ve discarded her for...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Pink, cotton candy skiesAnd a childhood left to fade awayThe future, present, yearningThe wind calling out your name This is the endOf everything that could have beenOf a past, lingeringAnd a broken promise stained on my lips What is left, the remains of...
