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Grace E Jul 2019
The gavel slammed.
“Guilty of sorcery,  conspiring with the devil, and being in possession of magical potions under guise of medicine.”
Elizabeth fought for her life
“I am no more a witch than you are a wizard! This is unjust!” She screamed, pleading.

That night they hanged her.
They congregated in front of the white church house. Rejoicing that they had rid themselves from the vice of the sin of  divinity infesting their beloved town.

3 years past

And The old white church
That lingered for years beneath
The mossy trees
Rose in flames lapping at the night air
And there they saw only her dark silhouette standing in the door.
And then
She was there no more.
Idk
Grace E Oct 2020
History rarely repeats,
But it often rhymes.
Grace E Oct 2020
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
But mighty in God, for pulling down strongholds.
Carnal= Carne= Flesh
The weapons of our warfare are not in our flesh, but in God, to pull down the strongholds in our hearts and lives. Are you addicted to *******? God can help you pull that stronghold down. Are you addicted to your phone? To social media? To fake love? Jesus can help you pull down those things rotting in your heart and making your life sour. You only get one life. Choose to live this life for the next one, the eternal one, the one that doesn’t end.
911
Grace E Mar 2019
911
I decorate my black & white life
In red & blue lights
With an oath to uphold integrity
To balance wrong and right
I’m married to lady justice
My instincts, ready for the draw
I am a servant of the people
But I am also their law
Many people don’t give police men and women the respect they deserve. They see the worst parts of humanity every single day and one of their occupational hazards is not coming home to their family.. I appreciate their exsistence and respect what they do.
Grace E Mar 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen!

My next act,
Is one of mind bending originality.
Using only mirrors and shadows,
Allow me to contort your reality!
I employ the pledge to invite,
The turn excite
& the prestige,
To make you question,
What’s wrong & what right.
But remember, dear audience
Keep your gaze transfixed on the light
As I defy physics, stay in your seat
Lest you **** the illusion.
Please scream & throw roses at my feet.
You came here, after all
To have your intellects ruled.
& you let me do it
Because you loved to be fooled
Poets are word magicians
Grace E Feb 2020
I crave an abundant life.
I crave good company,
Passionate kisses,
True joy and peace.
I crave freshness
I crave new perspectives
I crave movement, fluidity
And thankfulness.
I crave life.
I crave an abundant life.
Grace E Apr 2019
Depression
Is a handsome man
With blue skin
Wears a black suit
And a sympathetic grin
He’s deceitful
Powerful
He’s charming
And evil
And he loves me so much
At least that what he says
Wants me to get in his hearse
And run away
Wants to break me out
Of this painful
Cage
But he’s lying to me
He’s lying to you
Lying is the only thing
He knows how to do
Politely decline his offer
As good as he makes it seem
He leaves you as soon as you decide
It’s time to make yourself “just go to sleep”
That’s where he wants you
Broken, lame
“It’s everyone else’s fault”
You’re playing his game
It’s you. It’s you. It’s you.
Only YOU can save you
He’s a villain and he’s in your head
Don’t entertain him
Because he’ll laugh when you’re dead
Grace E Apr 2019
The beautiful warrior
Arranged her hair
And painted her lips cherry red
Her battle paint
She’s ready
Grace E Feb 2020
In conclusion,
He gave me many material comforts.
And he gave me bruises on my body.
He would lend me his good will,
Not from love,
But for control.
I should have ran the night he pointed a gun at me.
Loaded or not. It should’ve been the end.
I’ve strove with him so tirelessly.
Given him second and third chances so preposterous it’s laughable.
I’ve waited patiently for him to be patient.
I’ve trusted him with heart, despite his brutish ways of stomping on what I give.
And the most maddening thing,
Is how he turned it all to make it seem like I was the only one at fault.
In conclusion, this is our conclusion.
Good night old friend.
Grace E Sep 2023
I would’ve cut open my chest if he needed a heart
Wrote sonnets with my tears
Harnessed the thunder just to impress him
Bathed in starlight to entice him
Tread through shadows to get to him
Died to prove to him
I love him
But I realized I was burying myself alive
For a boy, who wouldn’t even visit my grave
Grace E Mar 2019
There’s a sudden chill in the air
The darkness looms, heavy
My skin tingles in fear
My forehead spikes in perspiration
The ghost hovers in my corner
My past is here to haunt me
Grace E Jul 2019
I just want to kiss his tear stained face,
And show him the type of love that could save someone from their darkest oblivions,
truly does exist
Grace E Feb 2022
If you live life for yourself
Your desires, your cravings, your benefit
You will never be content
Dissatisfied and empty
If you live your life for those around you
Their benefit, their joy and well being
You will discover you are more fulfilled
Than ever before
You will overflow
Grace E Jun 2019
Emancipated I looked on,
The world below me spun.
The last breaths of the day slipped away
Fleeting with the setting sun

Then, as if mirroring the stars above,
The lights of the city lit,
I opened my arms about to fall,
But decided against it.

Not today, not in this way
No, there’s still beauty left to behold
I trembled as I stepped down
And shivered in the deathly cold
Grace E Aug 2019
You left me to bleed,
Alone.
You left me alone
I needed you
Grace E Jul 2019
I’ll never forget. How could I?
After the way you let me live and love in pure, reckless freedom?
And when everything fades, every tender touch becomes a snapshot memory, hung in some unattended gallery in my mind.. My heart will always remember you, darling.
The heart ALWAYS remembers.
Grace E Oct 2021
I loved you so much.
All these years later,
Seeing your picture still makes me smile.
I never knew love before you.
Never knew heartache before you.
You opened my eyes,
Touched my heart, my mind.. my body…
My first passion.
And remembering those wild nights.
Stealing our parents cars.
Meeting at 2 am.
Steaming up the windows.
I smile still.
And my heart breaks still.
Echoes of us will remain in me as long as I live, I believe that.
I miss you sometimes, I’m mad at you still sometimes
But beneath all that emotion, there is still a true, honest love for you and a hope you are well.
We said always and forever.
I will never forget you. I’ll carry a piece of you with me, always and forever..
Grace E Feb 2020
She looked to the earth
And then to sky
The ground was too dull
She longed to fly
She pulled on her coat
And her soul spread it wings
The air in her heart
Grasping for higher things
Her hand reaching for heaven
And though she met her untimely fate
Her courage lives on in the hearts
Of all those who attempt to do something great
Grace E Mar 2020
Sometimes becoming an angel
Means you gotta go through a little hell
Grace E Nov 2022
He told me he’d take care of me.
The only person he couldn’t protect me from
Was himself
Grace E Nov 2021
Down she fell in dust and ashes and hit the ground like lightening carving through earth as she landed.  
They relished seeing her subdued. They loved telling her she was undone.
But their hearts trembled, as they beheld, from beneath the mound of soot and torched ambitions,
A faint glow began to twinkle and glimmer and burn brighter,
She emerged from her burial place, with her wings set on fire. She burned hotter than she did before she fell.
She laughed, for they were faint at the sight of her. She could not be overcome. She rises stronger with every blow she receives.
A Phoenix.
Grace E Jun 2019
We descend a little deeper
Into the dark vaults of each others minds
The shameful promiscuity's
We’ve encountered in our time
The recesses of drunken escapades
We’ve long since escaped
Kissing prostitutes
And laughing in Gods face
Yet how the years have broken us
How we found each other in the dirt
How fiercely we love each other
Because we’ve both been fiercely hurt
How the years melt away
In the cool evening of our love
How a garden blooms in our heart
A garden that grew out of death & mud
Grace E Apr 2019
I try my best to make it a “morning ritual”
Not a “morning routine
My “routine” has notes of mindless repetition
My “ritual” is a sacred sequence in which you do things mindfully, intentionally, and thoughtfully.
This life has too much magic in it to live it like it’s a routine :)
Grace E Jul 2019
we fought.
my emotions splashed into a million waves of chaos and catastrophe.
my heart sunk beneath the waves swelling up inside my ribs and into my throat
I was drowning my love. I was drowning.
Where were you?
I was tossed and tormented by our dispute.
when finally I reached out of the waters for the door **** to reconcile, I found you there.
Asleep.
How calm your world was,
when mine was apocalyptic.
Nice to know you care so much. Problems of being the passionate one. They will never write poetry for you, when all you do is bleed for them.
Grace E Feb 2021
Suddenly I get it
A certain sweet love made me see
It’s nothing that I can quite describe
It’s something special you do to me

I’m perplexed
You’re so self-controlled, yet so raw
I just can’t name what it is
A genuine je ne sais quoi

I’d never give myself away
But I have deep feelings, it’s true
You are so very different
Make a girl want to cook and clean for you
Grace E Aug 2020
She wore wisdom and war
Behind the veil of her eyes
A piercing discernment
Her eyes were a monument
Of the undercurrent
Swelling in her soul
Grace E Feb 2019
Your love was like
An atomic blast in my heart
I wasn’t expecting that kind of power
Nor that kind of destruction
Grace E Dec 2019
I feel like an Audrey
In a world full of Marilyns
Grace E Sep 2022
The seasons change
And so do we
Parts of us fall off
Like the autumn leaves
Rather than saying “I hate the rain”
Or “I don’t prefer the sun.”
Find joy in them all
Rejoice in every single one
Grace E May 2022
I narrowly opened my eyes
Still glazed and heavy with sleep
I felt a strange presence in my room
Not a peaceful one, but definitely a beguiling one
There was a strange haze in the corner
It consisted of many tiny shining particles
Almost a glitter like substance
It was hovering in my peripherals
I turned and gazed
I felt unease and distrust
Though it looked beautiful and ethereal
I knew it meant me no good
And then it vanished
Grace E Feb 2020
She was dangerous because she knew her power
She knew her power to heal from deep pain
She knew her power to withstand a storm
She walked through fire and came out alive on the other side
She knew what she was capable of enduring
She knew she had gone through everything that was meant to destroy her and lived to tell the tale
She was dangerous because she was unbreakable
And it’s hard to control a woman like that
Grace E Apr 2019
You want perfection,
But aren’t willing to put in the work
To achieve it.
You get upset and say
“You’re burning down my paradise.”
But “your paradise” is dry enough to burn
Because you haven’t watered it.
All in all
You’re a bad gardener.
Grace E Mar 2019
Pointed toes
Touch the stage of life
The curtain opens
       Silence
Delectable first step
The wind section of the orechestea ushers me in
I am the music
I am the audience
I am the dancer
All in one moment
Second step
Anxiety
The brass section barges into my being
I am the brass
Stomping with elegance
Storming with poise
I am the storm
I am the victim being flung around by wind and by brass
And silence
Twirl
Flow
Ethereal skirt twill above my ankles
Passion and hate
Love and peace
Caught in the spot light
Beaming on stage
Chasing me like a criminal
Caught in a pursuit
I am the criminal
I am the law
Black. White.
Torture. Pleasure
Sailing through gravity
Land
Step
Raise a trembling hand to the light
Bow
Grace E Aug 2022
Take me under
Take me down
Baptize me
Beneath the ground
Where there are no others
No material or wealth
Let me die
Die to myself
For as I go under
Dripping with sin
Life will flood my being
And I shall live again
Live new
Live fresh
New life attained
Through this death
Grace E Jul 2020
Pulled in by one another’s immense gravity,
The tragedy of binary stars is,
They are locked in to a eternal orbit
Dancing around each other for eternity
But will never touch
Grace E Mar 2022
Of all cruel inventions
The bird cage must be of the cruelest
To confine a creature meant to soar
Behind bars, never to reach its full potential
That is cruel indeed
Grace E May 2022
You had an immense gravity
So strong I was ****** right in
But you’re no star, you’re a black hole
And there’s nothing for me here but destruction
Grace E Jun 2020
My guitar has a big ol’ black hole in its chest
I think that why we get each other
Looks at guitar. Observes hole in center “me too bud. Me too”
Grace E Jan 2019
She spun her web
Lured you in with her long legs
Injected you with her poison
And ate your heart out
Grace E May 2019
Sticky, sweet nectar
lying like fresh dew
dripping and drizzling into our soft soil, dense & nurtured
our love was good ground
where two fragile buds felt elated to bloom together
Grace E Sep 2019
He abused himself
So of course he could abuse me
Grace E May 2019
It’s Friday, and tonight
I’m gonna sparkle
More than my champagne
Grace E Feb 2019
I traced the texture of your words
Like my heart was blind
And your voice was braille
Grace E Nov 2022
Sorrow is the best medicine
For a selfish heart
And pain, a remedy for pride
So let me be broken then
Grace E Nov 2019
Behind the veil of gauzy show
Gaze into the eyes that house the soul
Behind the masks we all wear
Inside the pain we all bear
There is a common thread
Woven through us all
Behind our facades
And our socially acceptable wall
We are all in need of something
Something greater than us
We all have holes
That need to be filled up
We all share wounded innocence
Behind our outward features
So be kind always
To your fellow broken creatures
Grace E Jul 2022
I shouldn’t have played the game
I didn’t think I’d fall in love for real
But now I’m being buried alive
And I honestly don’t even care

You’re a drug I can’t quit
And I don’t think I want to
I’d rather die from loving you to much
Than die from being without you
Grace E Feb 2020
it is surprisingly lonely
to be a passionate person.
as if no one cares to match your pace
no one feels as you do.
it seems as if you are burning alone
Grace E Dec 2021
I blazed
I burned
I poured my soul into this vocation
My heart was on fire
That’s what they told me
“We’ve never seen work ethic like yours”
But the thing about burning
Is eventually,
You get burned out
Grace E Jan 2019
The Sunshine State
With a golden lure
From her staggering mountains
To her playful shore
For a melancholy heart,
She’s a certain cure
California,
May she bloom forever more
Grace E Aug 2019
Deep beneath the pines and firs
Looming in darkness, a mountains soul
Where the eagles make their roost
And the foxes dig their holes
A fire crackles to keep us warm
A blaze standing tall and bright
The forests darkness dims
And flees on the wings of firelight
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