Songs

Upside (Pop Song, First Part Lyrics)

By Athena Stairs, October 9, 2022

Upside – tired of the downside
Just glide – hard to in the rip tide

Happy face – covering the frown inside
Get a grip – meet you on the other side

Make your play – hard to in the confine
Take a break – gotta meet the deadline

Altered state – get a normal paradigm
Play it cool – hunker on the sideline

Feel a fool – no one else would wear a mask
Only one – won’t leave others to the chance

Pay the price – say goodbye to paradise
See them win – giving in to every vice

Upside – tired of the downside
Just glide – hard to in the rip tide

Happy face – covering the frown inside
Get a grip – meet you on the other side

Stream of Thought

The Tradeoff

Attempting to be balanced by having a diverse schedule which allows for rest and flexibility is not supported when keeping a roof over one’s head is proportiionately too expensive and work partners are not bringing in clients – leaving the network marketing to me, instead.

I have worked hard to establish a system that works, but carrying it on my own without any guarantees is just not paying – except by what I innovatively put into it weekly.

Adding more official employment diminishes the amount of income I can earn by seeing clients on my own, but potentially brings in better “security.” It also better qualifies to purchase a home because being employed by someone else is what lenders want to see.

I dislike being so squeezed that I feel forced to bend to my knees – limiting my capabilities – when the problem is lack of stable housing.

Stream of Thought

Shifter

I love you. I just do.

You’re the best that I’ve seen.

You are like me and I believe in you.

I can’t imagine this world without our positive influencing.

We could make an amazing, outstanding team.

Our visions and positioning are better than most can contribute.

Maybe our union isn’t practical when at first assess details.

But for the deepest, best kind of love – we could make room.

There are ways to figure such things out, if two intelligent beings put their minds to it.

Stream of Thought

Units

When you are paying more than you should, it is better to think of an amount of this equals an amount of something else.

Do not think about the “waste” that is occurring – otherwise you will inflame into migrained vexation.

(See image of me, currently.)

Look for the little reliefs, for despite best efforts, this is all you can hope for at best.

Rejoice that you got the garbage out of the car and eliminated whatever mystery was creating a stench of rotting.

“It’s the little things that count…”

I fecking hate that all my efforts are diminished to little consequence.

There is no getting ahead – only barely treading water.

For this, I am supposed to be grateful.

“Please, Sir, may I have another?”

(Movie “Oliver” quote.)

RAAAAARRGH!!!

Stream of Thought

Justified Anger

It turns out that in applying for housing where they pulled credit scores to see if we qualify, each pull has lowered my credit score.

So, when I went to the bank to see if I qualified for a credit card loan to pay off old small debts to increase my credit score, the higher number that I had worked to attain had been lowered – and now the bank’s hard pull has lowered it further!

A hard pull – whether approved or denied – stays on your report for 2 years.

So our chance of getting housing now under better credit score numbers – which I have worked diligently toward – is officially BORKED!!!

Here is a prime example of why those in poverty in America get stuck in poverty, regardless of their abilities, merits, or efforts.

It’s all about “credit:” if you have money, you get to promote your position. If you don’t have extra money at hand, good luck getting ahead!

Compositions

Wrecking Ball

She did not want to do damage, but she was tired of others pushing against her in their attempts to keep what belonged to her.

She had known the risks before entering, but had not fully understood all that would be stripped from her in her quest to find the truth behind this reality.

Humans were a vicious breed when unschooled to their purpose: backstabbing and dangerous.

Was she here to show by example again how to make life worth living? How exactly can one help a dying, intelligent breed recover when it has become resistant to guidance?

Compositions

Under Cover

Choosing a portal that would not be watched by sentries, she exited ahead of schedule so that no one could interfere and stop her.

She was not sure that she could trust her people, for someone had been letting proponents of corrupt mindsets into Earth’s reality sphere.

Someone was tampering with the Celestials’ prime directives.

So she took a leap of faith, certain that the couple she had found had the Tenants of Love flowing in exchange freely between them, unknowing that upon her entry, their union would be terminated and she would be swept through rough circumstances into a tumultuous Earth’s future.

Compositions

In Search Of Harmony

Alex: “Why would you do that to us? You leapt through time before we were ready!”

“I am so sorry, Alex. I felt that I had to.”

Alex: “You were selfish! You didn’t believe in me!”

“I was unsure. I didn’t know what to think. I wanted and want now, more than ever, what we promised to each other. But, I was worried for the world. I was worried that I wouldn’t think about it clearly. How many of us have arrived before and forgotten our true purpose?”

Alex: “Do you know how much I have suffered, waiting here – searching desperately to find you? And look at what you’ve gone through – look at what they’ve done to you! You hardly remember anything!”

Mustering fragile dignity: “I had to put the world first and foremost – before us. Maybe I didn’t trust either of us, fully. I mean – look at your history with women. You keep choosing them younger and of a certain symmetry! I am older than you, now – and always will be!”

Alex: “You have gravely underestimated me, and I am angry that you did so – and so willfully.”

“Are we to stay separate, then – as Twin Flames are known to not reconcile, after all, in this plane? Now that our free will allows us to choose any destiny, do you no longer want me? Are these shallow delights enough for you? Should I fade away again – back into the scenery?”

Alex: “Your self esteem has been damaged, and your courage, depleted.”

“Yes, and yet I stand here before you and ask, can you forgive me? Am I anything to you now? You have everything in hand and I have nothing but my hope for this world, and the deepest love for you to commend me.”

Compositions

Future “Tense”

When he approached, she froze.

She could feel her elements phasing.

Like a startled deer, she didn’t know whether to stay or to bolt.

So she just looked at him, paralyzed, while assessing.

Gone was the wolf predator inside of her that knew how to forage on its own.

She wondered if she had made the right decisions, calling him forward to find her.

She was shocked that he had actually done so.

Stream of Thought

Simple Needs

When you are forced to live simply, you start getting rid of extra baggage – hopefully the internal, although sometimes that has to wait until you’re stable.

But certainly, what you need to access every day needs to become streamlined if you want to have any patterns.

And, it’s a great opportunity to figure out what is still important to you when you’re having to pick and choose between projects and you have so much to lose.

Stream of Thought

Leaps Of Faith

I take these daily as I forge into the unknown.

I long for security, friends and family – but what people sacrifice of their identities and accept as confining roles to keep these close is not something that I can do without caution, anymore.

As long as I can be me, comfortable and free to respond authentically without caustic, toxic baggage being thrown onto me, I can be at least satisfied.

Happiness is something I have yet to acquire as a constantant – except in reoccurring spurts of spontaneity that seem too soon fleeting.

I have always had this dream that if I find the right One, joy can be lasting in adventurous ebbing and flowing.

Stream of Thought

Impatience With Myself

Jumping onto the visage of my construct like an incensed velocoraptor tearing at an automobile’s roof seams – “Why can’t I do EVERYTHING!!!”

Focusing on this or that level of behind-the-scenes reparations (granted at least three units have been taken on this morning), I am vexed because I still have not gotten to other money-releasing projects still pending.

And now, I have doctor appointments to attend!

But, these things I diverted my attention to have to get going, first, so their yield can be ready and reinforce impetus when the money is released.

It is about coordinating for Right Timing – yet, I want to just take the leaps!

Stream of Thought

A Soul’s Purpose

The mistake on her part had been loving men who had no drive to succeed nor vision to want to help improve the world.

They were not interested in romance and did not believe that deeper bonding can develop between two people when trust is fully shared and given.

As a result, she had often thought that she must not be of this world in how she loved for all the “normal dulls” she kept encountering in her journeying.

In humility, sbe had thought that she just had to accept less in her partnerships – but then found that she began questioning and trying to wake them up from their “sleeping.”

Then one day, the awareness hit her in a bolt of clarity that there was another like her, out there in the world, also searching.