A Woman's Plight, Male Bonding, Reclamation

“Wait”

A simple request.

So she could catch her breath.

And process.

Just for a few minutes.

Let her finish the task and then recallibrate.

It had not meant “no.”

Ah – Gods No!

It had not meant that.

Never. Ever. That.

Lesson learned…

They were going to have to thoroughly down-to-finite-details work on redefining their communication together.

Because a “stop” did not mean don’t “go.”

Fear did not mean conclusion’s door.

And God Da** It – Why wouldn’t he believe her?!

She wasn’t the same as any prior programming.

She was a manifested glitch in the system – designed to glide through too long breakage to help with the mending.

A Woman's Plight, Male Bonding

Books By Their Cover

A very young man’s father
Ignored his good mother

Thus the young man’s pattern
Ignored his own wife’s needing

His best friend suddenly dumped
His own fiance for another woman

Then years way down the line he just
Dropped the woman in same manner

After projecting issues with mother
Onto her without clarifying desires

A different younger man struggled
Against being controlled by mother

Allowing this relationship tangle
To distort engaged commitment

Her own father abandonded her as child
Teaching love was only valued from afar

But then she met a man who fought hard
To keep his valued lover despite anything

Well yeah – she’d choose his mirroring like
Her own against-odds dedication – any day

A Woman's Plight, Songs, Where Demons Tread

My Darling Rue (Song)

By Athena Stairs, December 6, 2025

Yeah yeah
I know I know

I’m just supposed to
Forget about you

Yeah yeah
I know I know

They say to regret
My love for you

Ok fine whatever
However winds blow

We’ve got plenty of time
As my trauma has shown

Car crash shower slip
Life-threatened power trips

But I’m still a beacon
Harmless to the status quo

Not one of you brave enough
To stand in the light beside me

Only one of you still fighting for
What you were meant to be

Masks and mirrors
Masks and mirrors

My mind keeps spinning flowered heather
My heart holds tight in stormy weather

Excellent birds
Exotic feathers

Mating calls echo empty chambers
Window display of your flitting nature

Perhaps mine hasn’t been born yet
Maybe I’m caught in a time trap

It certainly seems the way of it
As songs compell misled illusions

So Yeah Yeah
I know I know

I’m supposed to
Forget about you

And Yeah Yeah
I know I know

I should regret
My love for you

This pre-encoded patterning
Watch me challenge nattering

Because I’m not going to resent
My soul’s need for love with you

And I’m not going to forget
What we came here to do

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Altered States

My Rings

“Many of them are not fitting, anymore.

I don’t know if this is because my fingers are getting more densely strong from my efforts to keep repairing, or if due to systemic swelling.

When I try to put them on, they meet thick resistance – not the typical fluid retention flex.

Perhaps this also indicates my continued shifting, as if into a new form.”

A Woman's Plight, Songs

“Spun Around” (Song)

By Athena Stairs, December 4, 2025

I’ve been holdin’ on here
Comin’ tends to another year

Please don’t fault me
I’m feelin’ lonely

Every time I turn around
Fears and worries make a sound

When love’s intangible
It’s uncomfortable

And of my feet should leave the ground
Don’t hesitate to turn me ’round
‘Cause I’m fallin’ for you hard

Can we find a better way
There’s only so much I can say
When I’m loving from the heart

Where did you go?
And where do you roam?

I long to be with you
To start life over brand new

Why are we apart
What good is this for our heart?

And you
I don’t know what to say

‘Cause you
Take my breath away

Oh

When all I’ve ever known
Has chilled me to the bone

Oh

And I would choose a better way
Can you see me?
Come this day

Oh
Ah

Never in my life before
Have I wanted something more

And you
Oh
Are my dream come true

Don’t you see me?
Can’t you say
We can find a better way?

Oh

Every time I turn around
My feet keep slipping off the ground

Oh

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