Alex (An Ideal)

Come Away With Me – A Lullaby

By Athena Stairs, August 30, 2019

Close your eyes and dream of better things
Close your eyes and find your inner wings

Soar among the stars, follow where your heart carries you
Soar among the stars, don’t be afraid to own your truth

Come away with me to where you want to be
Come away with me, I’ll be there gladly with you

Come away with me, my darling do
Come away with me, I love you

Fly among the stars with me
Seek for where your soul is free

Do not fear what you see around you
Trust what’s inside to guide you

Come away with me, up above the world
Come away with me – you do not need to fear

All that really matters is that we’re here together
Know that where you are, I’m always near

Sleep…sleep and rest your heart
Sleep…we are not far apart

Lay your worries down upon the soft pillow
They will be there if you choose, tomorrow

Come away with me – where the leaves are falling
And the birds are calling you home to me

Come away with me…I love you
And that’s all you need to know

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Underground

Infinite Baths

She could hear him near
Drifting gently, splashing

Happily singing to himself
Relaxed, so did not disturb

But thanked gods gratefully
Her soul full of love for him

As worry resolved into tears
She had not known she held

While praying for his safety
With his emergence, exhaled

Feeling triumph elevated by his
Rapture’s infectious catapulting

Her heart lept from own demise
Longing to kiss and just hold him

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(Reference to Sleep Token’s song, “infinite Baths”)

Where Demons Tread

Set Apart

“When I was a teen, I was not shown that I was wanted nor cherished.

I watched my siblings get everything they needed: held and comforted when they cried; love and nourishment; friends, toys and clothes; the free-flow of emotional expression – and they had me as an extra guardian and protector.

I got picked on and jumped at school; attacked nd predated upon by men of different ages; yelled at and beaten, terrorized; told I was a slut for putting on makeup, groped and molested by a trusted adult no matter how I tried to evade him – and then ripped away from everything I worked hard for, despite all of these negative influences.”

Reclamation

Money

When I wake up
And feel the hit

Coming at me like
A smack from God

I realize that the only
Solid issue is finance

If I have money then
All else can be stable

So that’s the goal
The focus of hack

Redo my marketing
Get out and make it

Then other worries
Really have no basis

Male Bonding

Heart Strings

“I want to be able to make you laugh,” he confided wistfully.

“I can’t just give you my heart, without it being earned,” she replied, which drove his interest further into frenzy.

She knew that if she showed him genuine affection, he would quickly lose interest.

In fact, he was the type to usually reject her, so her strategy was disinterest.

Meanwhile, she felt hollow inside because her heart belonged to another who would not manifest.

And she had to make attempts at “being present in reality.”

But it was fecking gruelling.

Male Bonding

Unfilled Well

There was a man who wanted to love her.

He took her into his arms and gave her warmth.

She said nothing, knowing speech would break the spell.

He projected onto her, made her his savior.

Confided in her while they were undercover.

Told her of his wife and children, and about how he longed for another.

He valued her, protected her because he could fill her with whatever.

She was a vessel – a shell to be conquered.

But she was alone and empty, even with external comforts because he did not know her well.

He did not want her for hersdlf.

He did not give himself to her completely, relegating her to being an outsider.

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(Men projecting at the gym)