http://slow.writerscafe.org/Lissalynn The original writings of author Lissa Lynn en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776099224 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Dawn eases the nightmares from my skin, Closes my eyes with whispered assurancesTelling me I imagined the dark circles under my eyes,Scribbled them in with markers or dirt or half-sober dreamsAnd that the crippling misery, the panic of two in the morningIs made of something less substantia.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1987570/ You numbered my ribs like starsTraced love letters up and down my spineAfter they painted bruises across my cheeksYou watched me undress with the blinds openAnd tried to sate me with the words you gasp into my hairWith bedroom eyes that named me damnation Fill my mouth with bleach an.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1987568/ Blue leaks in through the cracks,The darkest ink I use it to spell out histories and faded wishesAnd the dreams that set me twitching and fighting with the sheetsThe midnight words repeated silentlyLooping lullabies, staring at the darkGrasping at silence too full to fillI am shredd.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1987566/ Casual, your hands on my back, armsIdle on my legs, twining in my hair Thoughtless and innocentBurnt sugar, fractured at the lightest touch Suffocating on visionsSpinning, immobile and pliableExcuses and distancing from blameFrom intention or awarenessI was supposed to be safe here http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1979155/ Impassable roads, It snows for days until the physical is frozen and fragile, Lipstick lips condemned for being too tangible,Legs too bare and now she is as abstract and deniableAs that night. A silence she didn't start, The sun will rise again and fall again before she ever gets out o.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973385/ There are tripwires and landmines embedded in my overexposed head, Drunk and drowning in corrosive memories That play out and fade into a paralyzing acheAs I let the guilt lazily sink into my skinAnd paint that night across my eyelids a thousand timesReciting your words and resigning mysel.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973384/ Indebted, obligatory smiles, guilty concessions to your touchI fold under the pressure of youUnable to comply with the prescribed ideal, to feel itI am mesmerized by dreams, fight wakingBut I owe you lifetimesContentedness wavers, and I lust for burning Memories of tumultuous seas pull a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973383/ Here in this placeWith the birds and the twilight tinted summer breezeAnd the sunlight that combs through the strands of your hairOur eyes close and the stars sigh We are shadows bleeding into the darker edges of a memoryStretching our limbs across the boundary of timeFigments and fragme.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973382/ We tried to drink the entirety of the oceanTo bleach our stained skin with starry eyed stares Seeking a shared breath, we stole each other's air You swallowed my screams and left a thousand flowers blooming behind my eyelidsAnd let the bruises tattooed on my body dissolve for an hour at a ti.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973381/ Tangled, a knot I couldn't disassemble You are wrapped around my fraying threadsForced yourself to be a part of me through proximityYou integrate every flutter of your heart with mine, Synchronize every shaking breathYou shadow my steps and settle into my skinStretching your bones inside.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973380/ You fed me starsLit me up like a cigarette beneath my skinPut your tongue past my teethDrank you like whiskey, felt youBurning your wayThrough memories that acheWe had a taste for lightning, split apart the sky oftenLeft each other tremblingEyes closed, mouths openConfused ecstasy .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973379/ His confetti kisses, light like Powdered sugar on my tongueCover my eyes and count to seventeenLike we were when we took razor blades to bedAnd got wasted on couplets and nuanceSmirking, stumbling out of dark roomsWhere everyone knew where our mouths had beenLike grass stainsBut you.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973377/ January hands sliding under and over Drifting like snowEyes locked, brave in the way of children Dealing in whispered admissions and hushed ecstasy Like we were infiniteVulnerable and sincere, We hadn't learned yet to be otherwiseTo dull ourselves with bottled fire So memories blur a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973375/ Settled into these bonesBored and entitled, always promised everythingMaybe I'd sate that burning with sea salt and star-laced skies Youth and tempests colliding Tempting, to find someone to save meDrown me in these oceansTo scream the truth at each other with our lips locked,Hands fis.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973373/ Withering, exhaling November leavesBrittle and wide-eyedBreath clouding past parted lipsDizzy and divided, diminishedTo make smallEroded myself away, rootless and bareThese bones were a forgotten constellation Missing and buried In three feet of polite conversation and a constant.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Lissalynn/1973370/