Month: January 2026

Where Demons Tread

Honey,

Candid Corvid Productions

“I don’t know…

I map – and then take leaps of faith by extending inclusive gestures.

I love you, so I attempt to triangulate toward you possibilities in your favor.

Then, I rely on feedback from you to indicate if I am on target, or if I need to adjust my frequency.

Most of the time, it feels like I am ‘flying blind,’ and just feeling for your heart with my intuition hopefully correctly guiding me.

But this living ‘in between’ is how and why  I can be so easily startled by the unexpected between us without your direct cummunication.

And then I could get triggered into a shutdown or flee reaction by accidentally registering you as a stranger getting too close to me in reality, if/when we were to cross paths suddenly.

I have survived by being extremely cautious in the environments around me, although I mask myself quite fluently to the point where this mechanism apparently now takes over me automatically.

Talk about ‘being in lockstep!’

I had no idea how much masking for safety has become such a part of my external identity!”

Songs

“Waitin’ On Me” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, January 3, 2026

Out of touch
Without your touch

Gotta get out of
This dippin’ rut

Oh Baby
I just

Want you
So much

Can’t you see
It’s tearin’ at me?

No

You can’t ’cause
I hide it too much

But

You wouldn’t want me
To display it openly

Unless we knew
We knew for sure

‘Cause I can’t just
Give this to anybody

You’ve got a home
Here deep inside me

Waitin’ while
I’m hesitatin’

Until I know
It’s you for me

—-

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A Woman's Plight

Crush

Candid Corvid Productions

It was hard to keep being strong – to keep showing a pleasant and neutral face because she was not going to be the downfall of some passing stranger’s fragile day.

But when she returned to the car these days, she could feel her energy suddenly crash by significant degrees from just maintaining effort.

A Woman's Plight, Where Demons Tread

My Love,

Candid Corvid Productions

“I need you to come right up to me and introduce yourself.

Our start doesn’t need to be – and likely won’t be perfect.

Even if I flinch and seem to shut down, don’t buy into it.

I see so many versions of you lately that it’s all I can do to dig into my space and hold myself together as I quiver inside wanting so much to just reach out and claim you as my own.

I am likely projecting a vibe of ‘stay away’ around me.

But it’s because I don’t want to make a wrong move with a ‘wrong’ guy…

I just want you by my side.”