Repost from July 19, 2022
Month: April 2025
“Faded View” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, April 10, 2025
Breaks in reality
Rarely relaxing
As they ought to be
Normally regrouping
Displaced incongruities
Marginalized legitimacy
Moments fragmenting
Sense of self’s integrity
Looking for a way out if
Only through tidal spouts
Grasping forelorn shores
Wind blown never mores
Hailing ships and planes
Ashamed of fear’s pain
Carnivals speed past
Desert island flares
Astonished no one
Notices or cares
Imparts impression
Of love as a lost art
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Highs And Lows
“Maybe when we meet the right person, our emotions start to tumble around, preparing for our hearts to grow.”
Done For The Night
“Super-fried Fricassee-frittered.”
Second Guessing
She felt “messed up” because what if he didn’t want her?
“DiaTribe” (Song IP)
By Athena Stairs, April 10, 2025
Pressures on us
That dominate
Suppress our
Understanding
Where before
Open-handed
You always knew
And only cared to
If could avoid
Responsibility
And in your
Wintering
Half-shelled
Glimmering
I never knew that
You needed me
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“Hurdy-Gurdy” (Song)
Ripped up joints and
Spinal cord damage
Not eating well and
In fact I’m famished
Can’t touch them feet
Unless legs are bowed
Fingers spasm
So do my toes
Neck stretched too long
So I’m singin’ this song
Bo Jangles scramblin’
When trippin’ on lawn
Defacing pride though
Stay masked as I hide
Pain and overstim
Roarin’ like thunder
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“Tie Breaker” (Song IP)
By Athena Stairs, April 10, 2025
Pretend with you
Not any more
If you can’see that
Our love’s a door
And the things that you say
Make no difference anyway
If you don’t act upon them
And get on the floor
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Breaking Chains (Song IP)
As rules crumble
Yet truths maintain
What’s false falls away
And we can rebuild again
Without weight of stones
Forefathers had engraved
Transforming once premise
Into inclusive manifest gains
“Magic Harp”
12 strings
Wings Unfolding (Song)
By Athena Stairs, April 10, 2025
I’d like to talk with you
About important things
To understand you better
Learn what we both need
Don’t want to douse your fire as
Searching for ground’s stability
Insecurities’ overcompensations
From a life’s banished desolation
Causing automatic clinging to
Shade’s safety under the trees
Literally learning to walk again
Requiring careful treading land
Yet maybe I’m just nervous to be
Taking your hands’ instant flying
Having been bound too tight while
Admonished for instinct’s aspiring
I get the feeling you wouldn’t care
What anyone thinks of our union
Exhilarating as I need some time
To get used to us before the world
Welcomes, opinions, or challenges
I want to secure our hearts’ clarity
Fame, fortune, fancy to quiet venues
Can be adventures we share together
What I crave most is our souls’ tethers
Wrapping us so tightly in any weather
As if we can’t move or breathe
Nourishing each others’ beliefs
Harnessing energy of trust
Generating heat of life’s lust
Our wings unfolding as we expand
Reaching love’s higher dimensions
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(Parallel Lines – ATTLAS)
Abstract
“When you watch so many memes, but now the badger’s on the other foot.”
“No, You Can’t”
Opposites Attract
“In The Dark”
“Snail-Eee-Poooeess”
(Waterfall – Elderbrook & Ahmed Spins, Extended Official Visualizer)
(Easy On Me – Adele)
Sleep Token Quote
“Stick to me…stick to me like caramel. Walk beside me, ’til you feel nothing, as well.
Falling free of the final parallel. The sweetest dreams are bitter when there’s no one left to tell.”
(From their latest song, “Caramel”)
“What Am I To You?” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, April 9, 2025
Do we have
What it takes
To overcome
Our tendencies
Those petty jealousies
That turn love to hell
Because here come
Mary, Jane, and Nell
Fawning over you
Like a rock star
They’ll only take you so far
Until they’re done with you
Feeding frenzies glutting
From affection given easily
While I’m forced to watch
When you’re not here with me
How can our story be different
From cycles that went on before?
How have we changed, grown to
Deserve walking through that door
When success relies upon fame of
Fans cheering, demanding more?
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“Fool For You” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, April 9, 2025
If I’m a fool
Waiting for you
Let me know
And I’ll go
I can strive to
Reach those heights
And entertwine
Through venues
But if I’m not the one
Fire that gun
So that I can
Try to forget you
Does it matter
That I love you?
Does it, my love
Matter to you?
Am I the one
You dream of
Or am I just caught
In the crossfire, again
Thinking I’ve found
My long-lost friend
Comin’ ’round the bend
Like Moon River Tiffany’s?
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Taking The Leap
“I know it’s complicated, but let’s do this.”
Trajectory
“Like a space ship speeding through our galaxy, I pray you slingshot around those planets and return to me – post-haste, my sweet.”
Life As A Mother Of 7
David Bowie Advice To Artists
Chuckles
(Meant To Be – Paraleven)
Careful Tread
Having been encroached and poached upon, she was careful when she became attracted, for she never wanted to have anyone hurt by her actions – as others had done harm to her.
Deprogramming
“If we can see the lies that have entrapped us, maybe we can figure a way around them.”
Fractured Trust
“We’ve been conditioned to believe that heartbreak and deceit are just the way life is.”
(If I Say – The Happy Hippy Death Cult)
Mind Fu**ery
“When caught repeatedly within embroiled inequities of one form to another, the real battle becomes the struggle to overcome imposed belief that one will never rise above.”
(Fields Of Elation – Sleep Token)
My Demons
“MINE – I WILL OWN THEM!!!”
(Sound the battle cry)
Move!
“Stuck in my car at 12:30am from the shock…”
Fire Your Gun
“It’s a testament as to how deep the ditch is that I’ve been shoved into, that when I begin to finally emerge, I am met by renewed resistance.”
Ode
“The neighbors diagonal-across the way must’ve moved, because their lovely yard, with the lovely tree always draped endearingly wuth bright, tiny evening lights, were all ripped out and replaced with a flat and nondescript, monocultured lawn.”
Sometimes
“It’s f-ing hard to be pragmatic.”
(Shelter – Sleep Token)
Negative Feedback
“Nothin’ like being constantly badgered into feelimg like one has no control over their life’s circumstances!”
You Know, It Gets Like This…
“Enough said – MF’s”
And Then…
“My already empty bank account gets hit by some mystery $700 Federal charge, massively overdrafting.”
(Waterfall – Elderbrook)
Processing Speed
“In some ways, my mind processes things so rapidly while extrapolating complicated variances interdimensionally – I’m not sure a partner could meet, or even keep up with me!”
Yep!!!
Artists
Awwww
Dear Alex,
“I think it has been too long since I’ve had a partner to talk to and share things with.
The ache is not easily managed, and I wonder if it can ever be fed well-enough.”
“Lilac”
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