Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
Is it wrong
Or ignoble
For me to ask
For our bliss
Am I a whore
Mere chattel
To own desire
For your kiss
In all the realms
Of kingdoms
No greater knight
Ensued
So why my Heart
My True love
Would I not
Give it all
To you?
—-
Elden court lyre with woodland melodies.
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By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
That man loves me
For once it’s real
That man loves me
With a heart of steel
You never know they’d say
With a jeer unconcealed
But that man’s worth
Is beyond repeal
And if you say
We haven’t got a chance
If you’d argue
Our circumstance
Well then friends you
Haven’t learned a thing
Of what makes a woman Queen
And a Man her King
—
Elden sass upon verdant grass melodies
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As she turned to leave because she had to keep attending to her fragile realities, he paused her with a quick encircling of her wrist with his elegant fingers.
“Don’t go…
Stay.
I’ll take care of you…
I’ll take care of everything.”
It has always been said that dark and light can find a true balance.
“How to believe in love as real or worthy?
It doesn’t need society’s approval to be valid – only consent between two mature people.”
“A dream we share.”
—
(Content of multiple meanings)
Dr. Ethan Sperry, Artistic Director
Lisa Riffel, Assistant Conductor & Choir Manager
Naomi LaViolette, Accompanist
David Peterson, Producer & Editor
Stars
Music: Ēriks Ešenvalds
Lyrics: Sara Teasdale
Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still
And a heaven full of stars
Over my head
White and topaz
And misty red;
Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
The aeons
Cannot vex or tire;
Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill
I watch them marching
Stately and still
And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty
Could be nothing
Could be everything
—
(Title of multiple meanings)
She did have that same phone meeting, tomorrow…
A very good man to lead and help support her positively, for she would give him what he needed, in return.
“You could have my late to earlies, for a start.”
If he had cast his net a little wider, he would have found her.
She couldn’t try until that eve because she had to meet with others.
They were just two people who loved and wanted each other.
For they were both so ameanable that no stone need be left unturned, and all could be understood – and forgiven.
—
(Title of multiple meanings)
They had much to unpack, together.
A form of bliss
She asked him to walk a few paces away and then come back again, whereupon she cheekily sighed and stated, “You’ll do.”
And then, he grabbed her with a warning, possessive growl to their mutual laughter.
But she wanted was to hold him in her arms and give him everything.
She dreamed that she met him – but then, it wasn’t him, so the bonding went no further.
But the thrill of the simulation made her hope more than she’d been able to, before.
His lover’s eyes
Heavy-lidded in
Shy submission
& That knowing
Smile to swoon
A million hearts
Broke her in
A moment
Enraptured
“Why’d you choose me out of everybody else?” she asked him, curiously.
“Because I calculated the algorythm – and you fit it to a ‘T,'” he reassured her.
“Is that right?” she challenged, playfully.
“Oh, Baby,” he moved in closer to take her hands and look sraight into her eyes, “You have no idea how ‘right’ it’s gonna be.”
“I saw the movie ‘Barbie’ right before my accident – and had cried, hoping that I’d get my chance to feel young and alive again.”
By Athena Stairs, October 19, 2025
If you must go
Then just go
But if you would stay
Then please stay
Either way
You are free
To leave or be
With me
But know that
If you stay
I will never
Let you go again
Because you’ll
Belong to me
Eternally
—
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Discovering
Recognizing
Considering
Discussing
Committing
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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