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Aug 2021 · 125
Except for the Mosquitos
Agrace Aug 2021
I wish I could always feel how I do alone in the woods
I run through the trees breathless
Alive and awake and wild
Consumed by the trees
Every shade of green blinds me
I listen so hard to the birds and bugs and wind that I can't hear my thoughts
So free and reckless and untouched save for the the sun
Some days I think the forest wants to swallow me whole
and sometimes I think I just might let it
To disappear in the soft emerald folds of Nature's body
And just be this free wild thing
It's tempting
If it weren't for the mosquitos
I might just never come back
Apr 2021 · 268
1,857
Agrace Apr 2021
every time i think my heart is securely in my chest
you come back just to remind me that it's 1,857 miles away
Jan 2020 · 102
ice cream
Agrace Jan 2020
hey there pretty brown eyes
with your summertime laugh
make me smile 'til my jaw aches

playing with my hands
like you don't even know
how it makes my breath catch

long hair catching the light
liquid sunshine strands
tickles my neck as you lean into me

soft voice like the mountains
calling my name
butterflies hot in my stomach

your perfect lips
catch mine and i can feel your smile
and taste your ice cream kiss
Feb 2018 · 188
seeing red
Agrace Feb 2018
anger is a corset
red and tight
constricting my insides
until i can't breathe

anger is a corset
hot and laced
gasping for air
i can't get it off

anger is a corset
rigid and suffocating
unburden or asphyxiate
i am consumed
May 2017 · 245
Bridges Burned
Agrace May 2017
We were young and reckless
There wasn't one without the other
You jumped off a bridge I jumped too
Then we naively splashed in the depths below

But then we grew up...

Now the water under the bridge is shallow and clear
We stand with a half burned bridge between us
And as you look at me and jump over the edge
I scream your name
May 2016 · 581
Polar Opposites
Agrace May 2016
lovers claim their souls are made of the same stuff
but yours and mine are made of opposite matter
like the positive and negative ends of magnets
they constantly are attracted to each other
and we can't seem to resist the pull
that binds us together
our love seems
  magnetic
Apr 2016 · 380
i can't outrun you
Agrace Apr 2016
my sneakers drum out a rhythm
on the pavement but
running from you is impossible
when every lyric
that blares from my headphones
holds traces of you
Apr 2016 · 581
drowning
Agrace Apr 2016
you can't understand
what you do to me
every glance clouds my mind

enthralled by the way
your lips say my name
with you i lose track
of all time

loving you is like breathing
your kisses like air
and i'm drowning

catching my tears
you pull me up
save me from the dark

holding me close
with you my heart sings
that's how i know
it's love
Apr 2016 · 697
another me (10 w)
Agrace Apr 2016
the person behind the looking glass
no longer smiles back.
Agrace Dec 2015
r.i.p. me
i'm drowning in your eyes
so like the ocean
washing over my whole being
unable to leave
your tides pull me back
every time
i’m sinking fast
i can’t breath
i’m done for
lost in the vast oceans
of your eyes
Nov 2015 · 801
between the lines
Agrace Nov 2015
I pity people who don't like reading,
the ones that only see a story without feeling it,
those who cannot immerse themselves in words,
for they aren't truly reading,
to read you have to lose yourself within a character,
disappear into the story,
manage to escape from reality,
to the sanctuary of a story's words,
suspended between worlds,
holding you in its spell,
to read you can't be you,
become someone else,
awaken in a new reality
Oct 2015 · 288
Burn Bright
Agrace Oct 2015
Humans are like fire,
some are warm,
comforting,
they light the way for others,
but some,
destroy,
consume,
burn each other down,
can reduce the world,
to ash and bone,
and leave you tasting smoke,
don't be a wildfire,
be a torch in the darkness,
burn bright ember eyes
Oct 2015 · 408
Puppy Love
Agrace Oct 2015
He will not stay forever
She will not put up with you for eternity
The only form of truly unconditional love you can receive
Is not from the hands of a human
but at the paws of a dog
Oct 2015 · 1.3k
i'm not a vanilla person
Agrace Oct 2015
i love chocolate,
its more than just sugar,
sweet or bittersweet,
white,
dark,
milk,
eat it plain or mix it into something,
or just smell its tantalizing aroma,
whichever way you will smile,
chocolate is a universal answer,
cold=hot chocolate,
hot=chocolate milk,
stressed,
hungry,
sad,
angry,
try chocolate,
scientifically proven,
to release endorphins and serotonin,
so there's no need to feel guilty,
go ahead,
take a little bite
Oct 2015 · 475
teenagers
Agrace Oct 2015
we judge books by their covers
we are judged by our covers
we take personality tests
because we don't know who we are
we want to know
we wish to belong
we build up our walls
just to have them crumble
and burry us in the ruble
emotions run high
caring too much
or not enough
our words fly without a thought
embedding themselves like thorns under skin
red fingerprints
we want to grow up
so we are not looked down on
we want to escape our thoughts
so they don't consume us
cut us open
bleed us dry
Oct 2015 · 336
flawed
Agrace Oct 2015
they ask me how i love you,
why i never leave you,
i try to tell them,
your flaws are what make you,
perfect

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