“They must have worked -!
A higher ranking rare and bizarre experience than I have ever had before.
Thank you for your blessings, oh ‘ghosts’ of the ER!”
“They must have worked -!
A higher ranking rare and bizarre experience than I have ever had before.
Thank you for your blessings, oh ‘ghosts’ of the ER!”
“Confirmation of life.”
(Can I have some joy and pleasure, please?)
“I shall live.”
Headphones
Fall…
Get back up…
“My life is offici!lly a soap opera.”
“Suddenly feelimg pressure from many hands on my legs and hovering over me as if checking and reading me while crowding once the nurses left was freaking me out, cascading shock reaction until I took off the neck collar and relieved tension pressure from too much traction on my brain.
Weee…never had that happen before.
And here comes more pain.”
“I get a new tour.”
“Fallimg as I leaned forward in the unfamiliar tub, quickly grasping without purchase to catch myself – forehead smacking hard against the (luckily) flexing wall just before my hands landed on the bottom of the tub, causing a double jar-wrench right at the left neck locked up injury compression.
‘FU**!’ I cried out…then turned off the water so that the neighbors would know that I was alive and not feel compelled to call the fire department.
The optimist in me says, ‘Well…I’m working with the right people, so maybe this could somehow have knocked the site loose as a blessing, and they’ll help me inyegrate it.’
But the throbbing pain from there up into the left 9f my head around eye socket desires to just cut loose screaming and further cussing.
Oh yeah – and now that side if my face is throb-twitching…so fuuuuunnnnnn.”
By Athena Stairs, November 14, 2025
Oh secret smile shared with demure eyes
Angelic blessings can no longer disguise
Come and let me touch the Face of Love
Teeth like a cat’s voice smooth as a dove
Only a halo burning bright for pure Truth
Could survive Hell’s fire walls undeterred
Tranforming ash into heat’s molten desire
Wings of supernova stardust lift us higher
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“We are told that our value decreases as our age increases – but that is because ‘elders’ cannot be so easily manipulated.”
“The pressures of the years rapidly increasing from the accident’s fallout have produced pronounced silver strands to either side of my cheek bones – which I always thought would be cool, but the Crone is definitely getting to drink her fill.”
“Where is the room for courtship and romance?
Is it enough of a start to have spoken our shared truths at distance?
I wore a mask today to protect my fellow healer students.
But doing so overheated my brain and recycled whatever I was fighting off so now I feel feverish.
So if, for example, we were to meet this evening, my instincts would be to turn you away to protect you.
Or…
The only other option would be to invite you in where we would instantly (hopefully) succumb to sleep together – and I would likely infect you.
Are we allowed to just cross that line and fall into natural rhythms together?
Why do I feel like I’ve always known you – as though we are tethered?”
Activities & shows – but going back to bed.
“But what makes us ready?
Surely – do not say that it’s more time!”
“It broke today after having been significantly snagged days ago.
Did it abdicate to save my digit from further harm?”
As our projection mirroring reflection
But need for self mastery dominated?
I ask because I, too, reacted yet
We’ve been deceived by the ruse
I dream of a time when
A man syncs with mine in
A type of parallel symmetry
Quivering
I’m shaking
Am I sick or
Nervousness
Compounds
In the waking?
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Hard-hitting anxiety
From extension that
Lacking reciprocation
Cascades in retraction
Quiet – they say to keep quiet
For if request he will not come
The light cast bright reveals someone
As if they really knew what to look for
So many are waiting for that knock on their door
And my nerves keep aching fried and frazzled
“Is there something that I can do to make things easier for you?”
“I’m not sure how to feel better about past negatives – except to focus upon current positives.”
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Retraining sessions
By Athena Stairs, November 13, 2025
Take me to the alter where
We’ll worship on our knees
Our love will never fail as
Souls in paradise redeem
No one can tear apart destiny
Holding hands our lives unite
We’ll celebrate Fall’s rejoicing
As the season love takes flight
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I did not tell you this because
I didn’t want to seem boastful
But when I was provoked to
‘Go find the man I wanted,”
I had to acknowledge that
The one I wanted was you
Which hard-shocked me because
For so long I’d avoided this truth
“It becomes ever further apparent that my creations here keep me from dissolving completely.”
She began to see that this was The Test:
Every man before had used up her best
And then rejected her as failed to match
Let alone surpass capabilities provided
So perhaps this is why she was stripped:
Because only the right man would prove
His ability to rule well by her side by
Helping her fight to regain her vitality