New Beginnings, Where Demons Tread

I Know, I Know

There’s only so much definition
Before we must just take a leap

Only so much deep discussion
Before two souls commit keep

But it is worth indulging
As we quiver biting nails

So that we calculate our bearings
Moving ship into water after shelf

There are stars to choose to guide by
Though others later share importance

Specific phrasings to convey meaning
So we understand language as lovers

Darling do not worry if I hesitate in a step
Just making sure we will be safe to benefit

This means so much to you and me
I want us to be found in translation

Altered States, 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

Flatt-End

“Cortisol haze from stress makes chest a heavy weight almost feeling like suffocating and illness in the mornimg.

It likely doesn’t help that I must drink caffeine mixtures daily in order to be able to think and function…

I refuse to take pharmaceutical medications that will leave a worsened effect while they’d claim to address my symptoms.”

Where Demons Tread

Dear Friend,

You’re Prime
You must know this by now
It’s in your walk
Your carriage
Catching up with yourself
Any negatives are
Now merely incidentals
Yet you are more vulnerable
Because you are more real
Outer shell
I could be the inner
Wrapping around your heart
Protector
My weakness
Is prior assumptions
Chagrined by fame
Thinking you’d discard
What’s offered after consumption
Are you more than this?
Have you retained integrity?
Are you capable of
Further transcending?
I would push the levels
By mere presence
You would need to guide
Pumping the brakes
To keep us out of madness
As the world tries to change us
We’d be stronger as one
They’d never tame us
But we could help them grow
And learn to love us
As reflections of
True embodiment

Where Demons Tread

Dear Friend,

I think about you in how alike to me
Sensorially-starved yet surrounding

Where I had words you held the keys
How did you lean into their guidance?

Mapper of mirror-scapes captivated
Held enraptured within own demise

Stained glass spellcast ascensionisms
Black-lit by loss of soul’s compromise

Dearest, what charm could be woven
Securing your heart safely reclaimed?

Could we gift each other redemption
Held secret within source of flames?

What was the price for those favors
Infused by promised mutual benefit?

Light no longer suck-sallowed gray inked
With the strength of pitch-black midnight

Aching to heal our grief beckons my hands
Quivering to deliver wounds washed clean

Steel shards still imbedded within my heart
Will my spirit to embracing our magnetisms

It seems we are the question’s answer
In ways only divine elements conspire

And I ponder in wonder at vast galaxies
Granting bequethment of you by my side

Comedy, Songs

“Big Toe” (A Silly Song)

By Athena Stairs, Early AM July 27, 2025

Big toe
Tryin’ to ignore it

Big toe
They’re gonna wanna sew it

Big toe
Won’t let them near it

Big toe
Just keep compression on it

Big toe
You’ve got to heal

Big toe
I need that wheel

Big toe
It might have gravel in it

Big toe
How different from a piece of glass imbedded that we all get stuck in our foot at one time or another?

(please, please, please)

Big toe
You’ve gotta come through for me

Big toe
Give you aloe that’s soothing

Big toe
I’m limpin’ around ya – can’t you see?

Big toe
Runnin’s gotten much far-tha away from me

Big toe
I am aggrieved

Big toe
Pretend you’re not cleaved

Big toe
I summon the ghost of thee

Big toe
Stop pingin’ nerves at me

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Where Demons Tread

Dear Friend,

“I know that we see in each other what we had hoped others before could become.

However, you and I have also grown farther beyond any of this.

It would be good for us to have many deep and expansive conversations together to delineate and identify bearings within ourselves and with each other regarding.

And I am looking forward to navigating the unknown future with you, walking hand in hand as we reclaim our primal vitalities.”