Myka Evenhouse ’22 - Analysis, Anxiety, and Lady of the Sea

by Myka Evenhouse ’22

To say I over-analyze would be a criticism of the complexities in which my brain views the world dissecting every experience to the most minuscule particular in efforts to entertain my restless conscious in this mundane cycle of life

Anxiety

by Myka Evenhouse ’22

Her tragic flaw was her thoughts too many, too far, too fast stuck in the future and the past always the worst-case scenario because hopefulness was evil and her past defiled her present and her future was irrelevant and the world kept spinning as those thoughts kept winning and her dreams became less prevalent

Lady of the Sea

by Myka Evenhouse ’22

They said I couldn’t love her She belongs to the sea As I wrapped my arms around her I said she belongs to me Then her body turned to water And she slipped into the sand Taking shape back in the ocean I stood staring on land The sea told me to leave her She was not my own Her eyes told me to follow Become immersed in the unknown