'Anna List

Exhausted Grace

Musing charm along the days
For warming hints of grace
Constitutes a tenderness
Held true to your embrace

Desired actualities
Assumption bends to find
Tortures the imaginative
Wither their creative mind

As speculated certainties
Find scrutinizing faults
Sates the dry embitterment
Of silent assaults

Until this fondness I adore
Exhausts among the lost
On realizing you're to be
Love's sacrificial cost