Songs, Spoken Word

“Kindly Drive”

By Athena Stairs

You don’t have to drive like a boop-boop
I’m pretty sure I’ve got my reasons, too

But I don’t see the need to swerve you off the road
If you can’t manage, please check your IQ

And I’m not sure that you should be operating a vehicle
Which has the capacity to instantly create manslaughter

Why don’t you just selectively take yourself off the driving meter
If you can’t regulate your internal computer!

Alex (An Ideal)

Dear Alex,

I have never been fully understood, nor accepted for my truth’s worth by a man.

These reactions – this sense of urgency which binds me to you must be my own responsibility.

Yet, everytime I try to pull away, I am called back to you, even though your actions hurt me.

What trick is this that led me to you – as if you were to be my answer?

Reclamation

Where The Heart Grows

A blend of worlds is best at times, dreaming I was returning home along missed seaside.

It was a similar place with sweet sun-salt air, lightly misting low contour-peaked landmarks guarding lazy coves along a gently winding freeway.

I was so happy to be enacting our decision to return with newfound assurances that we would thrive because I could market myself well in a community-based vital economy, and there were great options for comfy housing.

Definitions, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

Word of the Day: Hypothalamus

Your hypothalamus, a structure deep in your brain, acts as your body’s smart control coordinating center. Its main function is to keep your body in a stable state called homeostasis. It does its job by directly influencing your autonomic nervous system or by managing hormones.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/22566-hypothalamus

Psychology, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense, Where Demons Tread

Deeper Within

For as much as I am reaching out and overextending to keep and make more connections, I am retreating ever deeper inward, farther away from the Light.

Maybe the Light is actually comprised of darkness, combusting and regenerating, sparking its emittance at such a high rate that we do not see its core is the source.