Month: October 2025

Cassandra, Songs

“Even Keel” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

How does a frightened heart settle
After taught by the world to flee?

How does a body recognize
When it’s found a home in safety?

How does a mind learn to trust that
Another can pilot the wheel?

How does a soul make eloquent
Entreaty for love’s appeal?

—

Elden lovers’ treatise melodies

(Title of and content of multiple meanings)

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Songs

“Visions Of You” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

I’ve wondered about you
If inside you were like me

I’ve been searching
Far and wide you see

A partnership desired
Becoming legendary

The world as we know it
Needs love’s healing

And my friend
You and I do too

There’s no disguising
Nor debating truth

What makes you hesitate
What makes you bleed

Outside my door?
I’m willing to answer

You know my heart
Welcomes your banter

And though messy
Family’s renown

Is one of tried and
Proven dedication

To values that
We both uphold

Come now let’s
No longer deviate

Help me learn to cook
Let starvation abate

For we know and speak
The words longed for

Come forward and
Knock on my door

—

Hearth and Home Elden melodies

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Songs

“For Love Of Life” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

There are no longer legends
For death is ever present

A spectre always looming
To cast our hearts a’glooming

A jealous beast in waiting
Grips flesh in teeth a’tearing

To get at the soul – the meat
Of what makes love in life repleat

But what if we were to feed it
Garden leftovers to earth worms?

Could we somehow appease it
By felling decay in the green woods?

By tending to our planet
As caretakers of our ecosphere

Would longevity be granted
By innocence held again dear?

For then death would know fealty
By repast we all would share

It’d be welcome to extra helpings
For with plenty our love could spare

Whole bakeries full of flakey
Delicacies where none compare

If we joined in love’s communion
No one’s cupboards would be bare

—

Somber to lilting Elden chord melodies

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Elden Ways, Songs

“A Great, Vasty Emptiness” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

Well of Souls in this
Emptiness of space

Where life bloomed once
Now diminished to trace

When hearts retract
Feeling under attack

By fears’ apprehension
Or encouragement’s lack

Like dust in the wind
Remains where’d begin

And burial grounds
Are what we’re left with

—-

Elden melodies of mourning.

(Title from a reference to the movie “Serenity”)

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A Man's Journey, Athena, Elden Ways, Myths & Legends, Songs

“Golden Gates” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

I remember you from Elden days
As a whisper upon the wind

When love was just a shadow
In a world submerged in sin

And everywhere I’d follow
Led to high cliffs or dead ends

No money begged nor borrowed
Could erase our souls as kin

And if I were to tell you
We were someday meant to be

Would it be enough to hold you
Now we’ve found this reality?

My light it’s always been you
We have followed in its wake

The purest of intentions
Our blood never forsakes

Yet I who’ve come before you
Knows youth that still debates

How much longer when so close
Before our keys open the gate?

And instinct burns the scriptures
Where the wicked stole our fate?

For lifetimes we have witnessed
From afar the promised land

In each other’s eyes in passing
Swore an oath to hold your hand

Come to me now
Come home at last

It’s time we feast
On love’s repast

And all the world
Will know at last

What it feels like
To be truly blessed

Come revel with me
Breathe in the scent

Of Eden’s garden
No longer Hellbent

Children of God
As our descent

No longer cast
Far to wander

Come meet me
At the alter

Where our hearts
Spring wings anew

I know you
I know you

I know you
It’s true

I know you
I love you

Free at last
Me and you

—-

Haunting Elden melodies of longing.

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Vampiric Tendencies

Overload

Candid Corvid Productions

She reached out to touch him and he moved closer so that they could hug, if she wanted to.

Her hands lightly traced his arms which were covered in thin, soft fabric that gently radiated warmth, alluring with its sense of safety.

She heard a brief, deep sound from a small ceiling-imbedded speaker to her left above, and asked him if he knew where that growl had come from.

His hands carefully grasped her arms, firmly pulling her against the front of him, forcing her to put her hands upon his chest to avoid instant absorption.

His energy flushed from subdued calm into heat of an inferno and strength surged under her hands as if his body was being filled by a lithe being of massive density.

And her hands twitched as her switch flipped to her succumbing to the need for his fire.

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(Too brief dream encounter)