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In The Dark
She sent out a low howl, testing as sounding, trying to figure out what had changed in her environment while scenting for where he could be – and if he needed her.
“Winged Arrival”
We’ve Just Met, But
(Never Surrender – Cory Hart)
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Going into the store and finding your expensive makeup has ‘blah blah’…
How about not even thinking about going into stores because you have no money.”
Food Support Is Cut
Making the poor pay for others’ crimes.
(Midnight Noir – 1 Hour Cinematic Trip-Hop For Night Drives)
Dear Friend,
“I believe in your abilities to meet challenges and overcome them.”
(Roll With It – Steve Winwood)
There Are Reasons
“I keep my businesses small and practical.”
There Comes A Day
“Where if one wishes to blend back into society, one removes their personal truths from public view.
For we are not yet inclusively advanced as a collective – and there are those too quick to throw stones for knowledge’s abuse.”
(Return To Me – Dean Martin)
Sudden Craving
“Why do I want a fresh-baked, plain yet crispy-edged, hint-of-buttery warm donut?”
“Return To Me” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, November 4, 2025
Return to me
Oh journeying soul
Of youthful and painful toiling
Let not more time
Pass beyond our acquisition
For we’ve worked earnestly to gain rewards
Why chase false leads
Down broken promise roads
When we’ve found love’s truths revealing?
Surely you and I
Have developed Wisdom’s Eye to
Differentiate Same from Different meaning
—
(Please contact me for permissions)
“Pulse”
“Early November”
“Beatle”
“Runaway” Reggae Version (Song)
By Athena Stairs – Updated November 1, 2025
Verse 1 Intro
I found this really cool guy
Who could look me in the eye
No matter a thing that I would say
But then I found out
He was still full of doubt
Tipped his hat and then left the same day
Chorus 1
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
It seems I’ve got a knack
Can’t get a guy to stay
I need this nut to crack
They never take it back
The meat is always rot and leaves a bitter sting
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
They never take it back
I need this nut to crack
The meat is always rot and leaves a bitter sting
Verse 2
What is it in a man that draws me to him?
Thinkin’ that he’ll stick but there’s no glue
Like chasin’ butterflys
There is no reason why
Dodge and weavin’ only leaves my heart a bruise
Chorus 2
And all I ever seem to find’s a runaway runaway
No matter what I do it’s all the same
(Bridge) Stars aligned but not entwined
I’d seize the day they go away
A trick of light changin’ the frame of mind!
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
It seems I can’t get a guy to stay
I need this nut to crack
They never take it back
All I ever do is find a runaway
Verse 3
There came a time I thought I’d made the grade
But Fickle Fate she had to add her’s too
Life can be unkind
No replay just hit unwind
Now runaway is something I do too
Chorus 3
All I ever seem to find’s a runaway runaway
No matter what I do it’s all the same
All I ever do is find a runaway a runaway
It seems I can’t get a guy to just stay
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
All I ever do is find a runaway runaway
All I ever do
They run away
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A class assignment challenge required me to sing my lyrics to a prerecorded, looped track, and so I went for it and embellished on the fly in one try. Surprisingly, I timed it exactly – not knowing how long the loop would go!
I also edited the recording in Logic with a little bit of “room” effect to add some polish.
(Please contact me for permissions)
(The One – CamelPhat & Josh Gigante)
(New Moon On Monday – Duran Duran)
Knee Smack Into The Piano
“‘It’s a new, bruise on Monday…'”
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(Reference to Duran Duran’s “New Moon On Monday”)
Fried Fricassee
With all of the efforts it took to answer an agency call, get ready, deal with animals, leave the house, drive, get a gas card, check on rent progress, and then finally make it to the class building, she was late, her hair was fried, and her confidence was blown – so she escaped into a practice room.
Internships
She was learning to no longer reach beyond current capacities.
“Pixida”
Imprint
She had learned those desperate frustration emissions from a too young, also abandoned mother, when the little girl was under six years of age.
Pure Lunacy
“I do not know why I keep thinking that there’s a chance that I can get my food and get out the door without any animal complications!”
—
(This mornimg’s present, two piles of dog sh**)
Discipline
There was something enticing about the concept of being able to give correction without reprisal’s fear of abandonment.
FU**
…
Get A Grip, Girl!
Visualize a bodice
With strong thick ribbons
Pulling tight back together chest
Concealing by containing open wound
Rue’s Bruise
What had she done?
She’d allowed her heart to open
To the one man who could
Absolutely destroy her
By leaving
(I Love – Chris Brown)
Introversion Neurobiology
(Give – Sleep Token)
When You Give
Curtains are drawn as lights go down
No one else will hear a single sound
Unless we want them to
I touch your face as fingers trace
Tenderly kissing we now embrace
Joy releases our need to confiding
Free to share our secrets in the dark
How I’ve longed to feel your beating heart!
And all the world is quieting
Making space for our colliding
In a union that fate’s providing
Our souls lifted as flying
I’m yours in every breath
Pain’s Gnash
As it consumed her
She did not scream
For if she voiced
It would access
Last defenses
Where hiding
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