Writing Prompt

**Starseed - ****_an entity of extraterrestrial origin that incarnates on earth to help humanity and heal the planet._**

My grandmother always told me I’d die alone.

“It’s just the way it has to be,” she’d say. “Starseeds can’t afford to get stuck in the Wheel of Karma. Especially not right now.”

And in reference to Karma, my mom added with a giggle, “That bitch can hold a grudge.”

According...

Everyone always says that when you fall in love, make sure you love their looks, personality, profession, and temporary things like that. However, my grandma always told me not to fall in love with a man’s looks, those will fade, and his skin will wrinkle. Don’t fall in love with his profession, not even his personality, for you should fall in love with his eyes. A persons eyes will always have a ...

My grandmother always told me I was strong

I was an independent woman

And I could make my own way

My other grandmother always told me I was strong

That I was very smart- and I could cook

Men like that she said.

Now I do believe I’m strong

And independent

But I do want to be a mother and a wife.

I want to cook meals for my family

But I am still smart.

I think I am a balance of precepts.

When s...

My grandmother always told me

You must bend a will before you break it.

Tell a pretty boy he’s big and strong

And ask for him to save you from yourself.

String him along.

Make him wish he never crawled out of the fleshy, slimy dungeon of his mother’s womb.

She carved her insignia on many men’s tombs.

A true black widow.

For everything she touches,

Or has touched

Or will touch,

Dies.

My heirloom...

My grandma always told me to listen, instead of complaining. “It helps when you have to leave them.” She said in her sassy attitude. Kids never liked her, she had a long strong voice. She was never quiet, and didn’t have a volume adjustment. She often annoyed people whenever they even looked at her. When I was little, she used to have to brush my hair because my hair was too long and too tangled f...

My grandmother always told me

To be kind and sweet

And to not climb the tree

Or at least stay out of the heat

I miss her now that she is gone

The cookies and pies and sweet treats

She told me what was right and wrong

And to keep my eyes open and seek...

My Grandma always told me…

Don’t fall in line with everyone else

They wear a blindfold woven by seven

Their feet on another, but they feed themselves

Don’t lose grip of your golden heart

As you grow the world steals that gift

Adults are made of a fool’s dream

Place yourself where you alone may shift

Find a love with your perspective

Find a hand that calls to yours

And never leaves you to yoursel...

My grandmother always told me what a graceful girl I was

She told me when I danced

I was so delicate and poised

That I was as light as the wind in a meadow

Little did she know

That beneath my lace tutu

And the silk ribbons in my my hair

Beneath my gorgeous smile

And my polite nature

All my gracefulness faded away

It never dared to venture past my tiny fingertips

And attempt to dance

Alongs...

My grandmother always told me that life is only

Precious because it ends.

Because there is so little of it.

Because nothing before or after life, is quite the same as living. For better or for worse.

Life isn’t unimportant or purposeless because of how you lived it, it’s only unimportant or purposeless because of how you didn’t live it.

And nothing can change a life that you already lived, ...

My grandmother always told me,

“You’re such a sweet kid, Mary.

Keep being you, darling,

I wouldn’t change a thing.”

_I love her, but_

I would always smile and agree,

And just go back to read,

My books, my only friends,

Never wanting to reach the end.

_my name isn’t Mary,_

We didn’t even look alike,

Except that we were both little tykes.

Mary was loud, I was quiet,

But grandma never s...