A Man's Journey, A Woman's Plight

The Offering

From that angle, the light shined upon his face revealing the pure innocence still residing within him, displayed for her acceptance in vulnerable openness.

It shocked her to her core, for never had she seen such bright beauty – for she could see the light of his soul emanating from back through time to how he’d always been, from the beginning.

So young – so young! her heart leapt out to protect him.

How could she want one so young? She drew back in shame at her assumptions.

But she knew that she must have seen the limits of time as they frissioned.

Fidgeting nervously for an hour while on the important call and casting tenuous glances around her, she saw him at last cross behind her quickly the opposite way, striding purposefully to a car and clutching a rolled up and well-creased paper bag that indicated his nervousness.

As she turned to better look at his retreating, strong and mature back, all she could think of was there went the man that she loved most fervently.

And she felt powerless to stop him.

A Man's Journey, A Return To Innocence, Myths & Legends, Reclamation, Songs

“King Of Hearts” (Song)

By Athena Stairs, October 18, 2025

King of Hearts
Where’s your start?

Do you see the
Way is open?

In a glance
Hidden chance

Now we feel the
Future welcome

In all of the
Days of searching

Our souls had to
Keep learning

How to love again
In ways that never end

And while I was dreaming
You’ve been creating

A song to sing again
My Dearest Friend

My Dearest Friend

King of Hearts
In a flash

I see our
Lives unfolding

You and me
We make a team

Hand in hand
Our lives are golden

For all the pain
We suffered through

I wouldn’t change
A thing or you

Because we’re here
In paradise awakened

What was lost
Is not forsaken

But becomes
Reborn again

And Heaven’s voice
Opens the Gates

Calling us home
(Its throne our Home)

Chord chart and recording pending…

Note to self: last phrases end on same end notes of my song “Where Hearts Roam.”

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A Man's Journey

Caught In The Void

He didn’t understand why it was happening.

His parents just one day stopped truly seeing him.

Even when they spoke with him, it was as if they or he, were/was not truly present.

Were they distracted? Had he changed inside so quickly, so drastically?

Had he grown beyond their capacities of understanding?

They didn’t see his silence as an indicator that he was falling…falling deeper away from the norms of expectation.