Category: A Woman’s Plight

A Woman's Plight, Altered States, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

Adjustments

Candid Corvid Productions

“Working out today in mid-gravity-assisted decompression-realignment exercises, my left lumbar did a hard teadjustment in a way that it never had before – which painfully ‘knocked the wind out of me’ for a few minutes.

I am hoping that it was needed, and that it will reduce tension on my right hip’s mobility constrainments.”

A Return To Innocence, A Woman's Plight, Altered States, Reclamation, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

In This Room

Candid Corvid Productions

In this room I hurt
In this room I break

Facing brain injury &
Physical disabilities

In this room I play
Briefly connecting

Fragments of myself
Blown into segments

Following music trails
Along windy highways

In this room I dream
To bridge with a man

Building castles in skies
Where promises fly high

Because love is why
Life is worth living

A Woman's Plight, Where Demons Tread

Dear Friend,

Candid Corvid Productions

“In that moment, I was seized by all of my inhibitions, and one of them was the ingrained messaging of honoring your privacy – which, but – there you were, smiling!

But I was waiting for the clear “ok” signal of your directly approaching me – and was frozen solid in panic’s confusion as I saw you leave.

I didn’t know what was going on in your heart and mind, and desperately wished to give you what you needed.”

A Woman's Plight, Altered States, Society, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

Slippage

Candid Corvid Productions

“Going to the shelters asking for human and animal food…first driving through the parks and seeing all of the sprouting tents and makeshift coverings over piled vehicles and bicycle units – and then here at the limited rooms…levels of people older to young just trying to hang on.”

A Woman's Plight, Altered States, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

Closed Room System

Candid Corvid Productions

Pounding on walls
Closing in

Constricting
Sense of freedom

Limiting belief
In reparations

Finding my way
Becomes limited

From miscalculated
Neurofeedback session

Attempting to help
Brain’s injury

Forcing tied mind
Into corners

Happenstance
Constricts play

A Woman's Plight, Altered States, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

Prospects

Candid Corvid Productions

“I’ve seen enough of society to know that as far as material wealth and performance expectations, my positioning as viable for marriage on those levels is no longer market competitive.

When I rush, my hands falter and parts of my physical connections try to tear apart going different directions.

I did not deserve to have simplicities of my youth stripped from me.

Yet, I am not the first to fall.”

A Woman's Plight, Male Bonding, Where Demons Tread

This Side Of The Veil

Candid Corvid Productions

How had the sun been gently
Yet brightly slant-glowing him

As if late morning but
When late afternoon?

How was that area then open
With time sharing rare view?

Now when she parked near it
People lounged in cars by her

Which seemed odd as she waited
For why were they there like her?

The place was always busy now and
If went closer pedestrians observed

As if they expected something
To happen from her presence

Everything had quick-shifted into
People always using the pathway

The doors seemed to have closed
Firmly barring his return entrance

A Woman's Plight, Songs

“Runaway” Reggae Version (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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)

A Woman's Plight, Altered States, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

Fried Fricassee

Candid Corvid Productions

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.