When the Birds Stop Singing

Loss is a moment, a monumental life event that no one prepares you for.
Eventually, the flowers stop coming, texts slow down - the world keeps spinning and you’re left holding the weight of a new reality—one where someone you loved is no longer here.

That’s what The Birds Don’t Sing cracked open for me.

The new Clipse track isn’t just a song. It’s a grief hymn. One that gave language to something I’ve felt since losing both of my parents but haven’t always known how to say out loud.

I recently sat down with Myeoshe Marie Edwards—founder of F.A.C.E.(Fearless, Artistic, Charisma, and Elegance), a nonprofit that empowers young people to become fearless, independent, and assertive and fellow healer—for a live conversation about the song and everything it stirred up in us. And it wasn’t just a chat. It was church. It was therapy. It was truth-telling between two people who know what it means to live with loss and still try to find joy.

• We talked about losing our parents.

• About the numbness that comes.

• About high-functioning anxiety, and how grief doesn’t always look like tears—it often looks like achievement.

• We shared how therapy, community, and faith, helped us.

• How hearing two Black men publicly name their grief? It shook something loose in us.

At one point, Myeoshe said: “I illuminate better in the dark.” That line stayed with me.

Grief brought some very dark days. But somehow, in that darkness, I still found flickers of light—through community, through creativity, through conversations like this one.

I miss my parents every single day. And while I wish I didn’t have to carry this kind of pain, I’ve learned that I can still build something beautiful with it.

This conversation reminded me that we don’t need to be “over it.” We just need to be in it—honestly, openly, and without shame.

So if you’re grieving, or loving someone who is, I hope you’ll watch the replay.

Grief is nuanced and very complicated: 

Grief is a human experience and you don’t have to do it alone.

Check out the full conversation here.