Author: Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, September 18, 2022, in my car on a side road, when we were living in a hotel room for several months, searching for longterm housing.

Once got a taste for flying and sailing out to sea 
The world from all illusion breaks free to follow me

And climbing over parapet to see the land unfold
Once greed and vice’s union yields to nourishment as gold

What would you confide to me if there was no more fear?
What if arms would open wide to embrace what is dear?

What’s wrong would be unfounded in purity untold
Our people given reprieve – once meek now become bold

I’d meet you by the firelight (fireside) and you would take my hand.
Our differences forgotten for something that’s more grand

We’d hear the revelry singing and toasts to fellow kin
Where we had thought the path ended a new day would begin

Tell me that you share this dream so I can understand
Why all that matters to me here is for love to comprehend

How boldness leads to ascension instead of staying still
Our troubles find solutions as we work to cure what ails

When at last there comes the time that we can join in praise
You and I and everyone will banish confused haze

The light will brighten what was dull and give life from once sand
We’ll claim at last the truth we know, once quiet now demand

Until the day we meet again I’ll hold on to this flame
My heart will still be beating – sped up by just your name

And if you seek the same as me nothing will hold us back
The colors unfold majesty – a rainbow out of black

We cannot expect that life makes easy righteous paths
Who would any of us be if we did not give grace back?

Come share your story with me and together we will see
That what defines importance is the same for you and me

When the night grows heavy and you feel like you can’t stay
Just know that in the bleakest hours we’ll find another way

We’ve gone through worse before my friend – our tears have surely told
But now our hearts are comforted where before they were cold

I’ll see you on the ‘morrow along the green tree lane
We’ll let go of old sorrows and greet happiness again

Remember you can find me when your mind has become clear
I will be here waiting for you and your answer to appear

What could entice to
Bring you home to me?

No struggles or regret
In passion’s symphony

A bet against greatest odds
For greater than our cause

As Heaven’s found
In each other’s arms

Oh, what could convince
That you are meant for me?

A promise of the moon and stars
With the Earth as home’s scenery

I’d offer to you the sun –
But you’re the sun to me

I would give myself to you:
Our souls set free to dream

And influence our lives
The way its meant to be

While helping all we love
To reach for the ascension

For we were made for more –
To bring in new dimensions

Will you take my hand and
Help me shape these lands?

Will you take me higher as
Our vision takes command?

Are these sights I have seen
In our future that’s yet to be

What causes your heartbeat
To course with love for me?

For I have traveled desolate
Among barren deceptions

No proof could yet be found
As I held to hope’s intentions

I sought for truth in other eyes –
Never found ’til I saw your face

Since then I’m pauper to riches
Given purpose for human race.