LyssIf I’m being honest, turning 21 feels a lot like it did when I was 14.Moving. Leaving the people that love me most. Having everything I wanted but then nothing at all. Feeling like the person I love will be…Dec 29, 2021Dec 29, 2021
LyssI will find, one day, the words that are correct.What would I say to her? 14 and shivering. I’d tell her the truth — we missed the five year anniversary of our attempt because we were too…Oct 4, 2020Oct 4, 2020
LyssAll my feelings these days are so extreme yet isolated.I’m not good at this anymore. I used to write so much. There was a truth, a depth, to my prose before. Now my words feel superficial…Apr 22, 2020Apr 22, 2020
LyssI’ve been trying for a while to accurately describe the feeling of loneliness.It’s a tricky one. It’s not as expressive as sadness is. Doesn’t gut you, slice you open the way grief does. Loneliness works differently…Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020
LyssI wish everything was just a little bit kinder and softer.Sometimes sadness feels like an old friend. It opens the door for you and helps you walk through it, and holds your hand along the way…Mar 30, 2020Mar 30, 2020
LyssI had a feeling that once my fingers dusted reality, I’d feel more disconnected than ever.No matter the amount of love in my beating mortal heart, no one seems to stay.Mar 23, 2020Mar 23, 2020
LyssvalentinesThere are specific songs that remind me of you. Thoughts of you flood my head as I find pieces of our conversation tucked within the…Feb 14, 2020Feb 14, 2020
LyssI have always wanted to write something that made sense of it all for a long time.Somethings don’t make sense but perhaps they can still be experienced and captured and seen. Making them seen might be the only thing we…Nov 14, 2019Nov 14, 2019
Lyssit has been summer for so long now the sun has danced right off her tongue and now rainclouds…Sep 12, 2019Sep 12, 2019
LyssMy heart is an oddities shop:and none of it has ever been quite right, all oddly misshapen, abnormal. Her music is too Saint-Saëns, Danse macabre, all xylophone and…Aug 28, 2019Aug 28, 2019
