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What Is Real?
What is mine?
What can I ask for?
What can I demand?
What is inviolate?
Reality
Neural Healing
Dante Bonutto: Sleep Token
Recognition
It’s Like This
Right Now
Gen X Sass
Man & Woman: Strengths
Two Wolves
Movie To See: Rental Family
I Miss You
Seeking Safety
Last Rites
Good Boundaries
One Of My Days – LOL
Pack Protection
Da-Vine Snake
(Pipi Dormir – Lane 8 & Grigoré)
Thank you,
“To everyone who follows and/or gives likes, thank you for your interest and support.”
Dear Friend,
“Was it you who saved me years ago – not ‘Alex,’ afterall?”
“I’m Worth It”
(Aero – YOTTO)
(Emergence – Sleep Token)
Congratulations, Sleep Token!
“Hearkening”
Love’s Powerhouse
(Mine – Gustaf)
Dear Friend,
From worse to hopefully better
You’ve pealed off the bandaids
“Brain Matters”
“Love’s Violence” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, November 11, 2025
Violets
Violence
Violets
Violence
I’m smelling violets
In silence like violence
Violets
Violence
Violets
Violence
I’m smelling violets
In silence like violence
There’s something in the air
I sense you everywhere
If I turn when feel you stare
You evaporate into thin air
I’m smelling violets
In silence like violence
I’m smelling violets
In this silence like violence
This scent is in my brain
Keeps pinging my membranes
A garden fresh in bloom
Tears my heart open to make room
Violets
Violence
I’m smelling violets
In silence like violence
Violets
Violence
I’m smelling violets
In this silence like violence
Violets like violence
Turn violence into violets
Violets like violence
Turn violence into violets
Violence to violets
Violence to violets
Violence to violets
Violence to violets
Violence to violets
Violence to violets
Violence to violets
Violence to violets
Violets
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Electronica Dark Goth Song
(Please contact me for permissions)
(Different Forces – Phantom Horse)
(Slow Burning Candle – Sally Townes)
(Hold On – Triumph)
Timing
“Is so essential to comedic relief…”
(Mirthful cackling)
However,
“…we continue to learn just how fascinating sponges are…”
—
(Catching snippet end of a radio show just after finishing somner writing)
Thematics
She saw a sign saying”Bernard Malamud, ‘A New Life,’ and recognized that a new life was what she was indeed heading toward.
But she didn’t want to read the book because she was tired of so much messaging pounding upon her from every angle to get her to let it have its influence.
The title itself enough reinforced the truth of what she was wrestling with – for certainly, there was no going back to what she’d had or was before.”
Dear Friend,
I just want to love you and
To have you loving me, too
All of the rest is just
Trials and frosting
“Every Time – I Think Of You” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, November 20, 2025
There’s a place I know
I can see it in my mind
Where the ocean’s ebb flow
Meets the shore at high tide
And the waves crashing lap
Where the fullness presides
Under bridging overpass
Along cliff’s curving glide
A place where elements meet
Forming bonds within the air
Makes my heartbeat sing
Knowing we can meet there
Along this cove that’s discreet
Where people won’t stop and stare
Where given time to unwind
We’ll feel the depths that we share
And when the waves will receed
We’ll find a contour down there
Revealing hidden treasures
Gathered wealth we can spare
And then we’d journey onward
Through the tunnel high above
Grab a plane to somewhere
No one else would think of
And I’d gaze upon your face
Trace each scar as we embrace
We’d learn that we’ve found the place
Our dreams can trust in Heaven
And if you ever doubt reasons
That brought our hopes to surface
Just know I’ll be here every season
And love’s reborn with greater purpose
—
(Please contact me for permissions)
(Playa Ride – Parra for Cuva – Nicolas Demuth)
Molecular Chemistry
It was neither of their fault (just a valid misinterpretation) that upon first meeting their chemicals combined to create interdimensional fissions – blasting them far apart from each other, accidentally chastised in the confusion.
(Say The Word – Lane 8)
“Baby” Steps
“My love, are we ‘in this together to win this?’
Because from my point of view, our souls are pretty invested in our having success.
If you also believe this to be true, how do we overcome our shyness?”
Black Wolf
Having retreated back into her human form in desperation to stop injury’s pinging, she could not understand his language nor intuit what he wanted from her.
He stood there stiff-legged with hackles flared, growling at her and asserting his will – but when he realized that she couldn’t “hear” him in human form, his anger shifted into deep irritation and the intensity in his eyes began softening.
His aggressive direction backed down as he searched the perimeter with eyes, ears, and nose sensing and turned his side to her to indicate that he was there to protect her.
She carefully reached out and touched his thick and now smoothing luxurious fur, finding his warmth and comfort radiating out toward her as he accepted the gesture.
And when she laid down to rest again among the thickly piled fall leaves, he padded around her a couple of times – then curled his back up against her’s to provide needed support and keep watch as the night vigil’s guard for her.
You Make Me Believe
She’d had to allow the corruption to become a part of her in order to survive, neutralizing and owning it while bound to its puppet strings.
He’d met her there in the darkness – had called out to bridge with love’s intention, awakening the passion she’d held under tight leash as it ignited her need to embrace him.
But when she saw him suddenly in person in a brief glance shared that none before could ever compare, her hidden innocence suddenly recognized his hidden innocence – and two pairs of wide blue eyes starled back to their cores in a flash of white gold brilliance.
Transformed into unicorns and both confused by their suddenly repairing souls’ clammoring to take this union seriously, their high spirits kicked up heels in overwhelm – and tossing heads fled to opposite directions for safe distance.
Hearts On The Run
How can it be that where truth resides I am very shy?
Why do I still wear these glasses that poke near my eye?
With all of our life experiences why did we both run?
Bolting opposite directions instead of toward the sun?
Finding Love In A Friend
She came upon a singing class practicing low pressure, cozy outdoor performances in a little cafe outer nook with supportive atmosphere.
He was there, phasing in and out of his younger to now form and they linked somehow at distance.
Both extremely shy in person, their nerves became more secure over time during the practice as when one would look toward the other the other would receive and give back just a tiny bit more.
“Yes…hello…I’m here…I like you,” careful yet clear signaling throughout the session passed between them.
Toward the end of the class, she sang a little over the recording, just trying to get the words smooth and right, and then he followed, lightly playing with stretching tones upward.
By the end of his song, she felt some slight confidance inside bloom where she never had before – and got reinforcement from his glance lingering in her direction that he felt the same, too.
Her heartbeat quickened as the class began to end because she felt the first sense of real hope that he would want to spend time with her – and that maybe their connection would grow and become something that they both could keep, instead of something shallow that often quickly ends.
—
(Last of last night’s dreams)
What?
“What do you want?”
(Heart racing and confused)
Heart–Wake
She was dozing, trying the fall asleep, when suddenly directly in front of her a huge black wolf snarl-lunged as it loudly barked with challenging admonishment toward and back away from her face with jaws wide open baring fangs to make sure that it had captured her attention while directly staring into her eyes.
Her heart and body jumped, startling her awake from this sudden vision.
