Month: February 2026
“Tree Anemone”
I ❤️ You
“Enraptured”
(Workin’ For A Livin’ – Huey Lewis & The News)
(Dangerous – Sleep Token)
I Stayed Distant For Years
Because you mattered so much to me, which made your love dangerous to my heart’s beat.
(Past Self – Sleep Token)
My Love,
I never told you, but I had decided to turn toward you before – and then you turned toward me – shocking me, completely.
New Work
Gotta go do.
(Drag Me Under – Sleep Token)
You Know
“I want to.”
The Harder Parts
Baby, if they are dictating
Then we can let them lead
Let us lunge them like horses
So they release pent up energy
Ride the spook right out of them
Teach rewards are they can feed
“You Got That Feeling” (Song IP)
By Athena Stairs, February 10, 2026
And when the night is fallin’
I’ll keep callin’
You got that somethin’
I wanna live for
When your heart’s been achin’
Ain’t gonna lie to ya
You keep me comin’
Always back for more
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A Smile Emerged
When she thought of their getting to hold each other.
Reality Bites
She looked forward to the right kind.
My Love,
We can start at an easier level, if needed, for sure.
Unasked Question & Answer
“If I provided, would you come with me?”
“Yes.”
Thusly Begin,
Accompanying comments and explicative noises.
By The Numbers
Counting them, one by one, to be able to perform.
The Red Haze Cometh
Too confident from reduced inflammation’s pain caused her to miss two cycles of medication.
Still Points
Allowing time and space for fragments to find her and reassemble.
We Are All Learning
“In overthrowing what has not worked, we struggle to find and apply what will work – while sharks are chum feeding, churning up the waters.”
More Work
Adding onto her load quickly and praying that somehow she could take on the weight.
(Slow Bloom – EMBRZ)
Plight Of Accommodators
We are teased with the promise of love, drawn out from our shells by its hope to wonder if perhaps safe this time to claim – but then are threatened inadvertently or on purpose by unsteady ground warning of its losses, which shifts us into compensation to fill gaps that continue ever widening.
One might say to just stop and let the vision crumble around them to save their own selves.
But isn’t this what everyone else is doing?
Isn’t lack of commitments’ investment and followthrough exactly why society is often on the verge of capsizing?
Howling Winds Within
Passions enraged if she allowed them to war wanted to scream, “How could you do this to me? After everything that we have both gone through?!”
Tears Slid
Down her face without crying.
Croon-Howl-Keen
Not too loud, but deeply saddened, as she stood upon cliff, shoreline, and slagging ship bobbing in the sea, aching to be free to fly, run, and sail – making homes wherever they’d roam, happy with the man she loved.
Fantasy’s Reality
For a heart that truly cares and dares, suspension of true having can only feel fun for so long before one looks down and begins to panic when they find that they have gone so far out onto a ledge that there is no longer any solid ground to stand upon.
In such cases, one could then attemot to fly in fantasy, but the way can become lost with no guides or markers – as is a danger when flying through air, far above bounds of reality – and this dragon’s wings were still injured.
Retreat’s Teeth
Bridging for her on her own was becoming more difficult as her system began locking her down for self preservation to get her out of the strain of “stranger danger” mode around men – which made her even more avoidant, private, and irritated by unknowns.
Security System Checks
Her instincts ramped more to cautious alertness – and her feeling endangered to make a mistake – caused her to carry more daily tension, which increased shyness.
Looking For Him
Was like walking through life in a sort of Goblins’ Ball from the movie Labryrinth as she listened to music wherever she went.
The people were overall friendly, and the dance was toned down to natural life flows – but still, she did not know which man she could trust.
Not So Obvious To Me
“Yeah…
Sometimes I can be thinking and feeling things intensely – even have complex internal conversations with myself about them – but completely miss the fact that I could out loud mention…”
(Army of One – Coldplay)
Sweet Heart
Will you please be my Valentine?
I’ve Been Worried,
Thinking we’ve met, and you didn’t get the response you hoped for, because I didn’t know it was you – and upset because I haven’t known when or what to do.
I Thought
You knew.
Dearest,
It’s why I get upset.
And feel teased.
But not good.
Hon,
I’m not sure what you look like, which is part of my confusion.
(Running In A Dream – Nils Hoffmann, Kasbo & Vancouver Sleep Clinic)
(Roam – The B-52’s)
Cycles
She did what she did until the others had a chance to settle and the house became quiet.
(For the Love of You [Pt. 1 & 2] – The Isley Brothers)
(I Need Love – LL Cool J)
“Elden Family”
(White Lily – Laurie Anderson)
Days
“Blend into each other.”
So Fa-an-cee!
“Buying used thrift towels to clean up floors after dogs.”
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