“Of course when the vise is twisting, I want to go after who did this to me.”
Category: Altered States
Hell
Nerve-compression migraine
(Hold On – Faodail & noo)
Despair
Something that lurks
Waiting to take hold
Working advantage
Networking
Switching modalities and focus
What triumph can I pull together?
(I Need You Most Of All – Stephen Sanchez)
The Question
“Am I comin’, or goin’?”
Weeeeeeeee!
“Enough said.”
AH-HAHAHAHAHA!
“It looks like I may be going back to school!”
(Memory – Alex LeMirage)
Neurofeedback
“I had my first session today, desperate to move my body into any sort of positive healing.”
Captain’s Creed
“If I my ship is going down, I must make sure that the others can make it to safety.”
(Summer’s Ending Soon – The Midnight)
I Try To Tell Myself
It’s ok…it was all a gamble
Got me this far as shamble
It’s Funny
“Thinking on how I’d again live out of my car…”
Golf Course
Enduring symbolism
Full circle memories
Paused in a moment of
Complete helplessness
(Pedals – Leo Faulkner)
Lapse Of Reason
Any success seems momentary
As expends and then falls apart
(Title of multiple meanings)
Responsibilty
“No one is responsible for me – except maybe the person who hit me and caused these disabilities.
But frankly, I just want the cures with healing and return of my capabilities.
Can I have this, please?”
Seasonal Affects
I do better in spring and summer
Fall and winter, please be gentler
Cancel Culture
“If influences continue to behave their ways, at some point, everyone will know everything about everybody.
Therefore, be sure to show your positive, inner light – in whatever form that may be (within bounds of ensuring your own safety) – instead of letting them chase us all into attempted hiding.”
(Vore – Sleep Token)
Screaming
Inside
Air Flow
“It is one thing to choose to rest and settle…”
(Lose Yourself Again – Mansionair)
Hssssss – Haaates It!
“I do not like turning clients away (with referrals, of course) and being unable to help them!”
“Depth”
(Lady – Little River Band)
It’s Too Late For Me Now
“I am altered.”
—
(Sleep Token “Alkaline” reference)
(Holdin’ On To Yesterday – Ambrosia)
Hidden Measures
Limited independence
Unable to earn income
Yet plenty of struggle
Doing simplest tasks
One movement creates
Several parts against it
Muscles bend beyond
Normal planed edges
Or lock up rigid tight
Defying functionality
Checking In
“I’m pretty sure that I requested that my abilitues were to be regained, financial strength improved and retained, and that I have the love I’ve been striving so long for.
High Standards
“I’m ‘so done.’
And the fact that I’m so weary has got me irritated because I used to produce much more output.”
Cancellation Clause
“You can do anything you set your mind to…”
(Unless you have brain injury)
(Slow Down – EMBRZ)
I’m Not Gonna
“Sob due to nerve meltdown.”
Overcoming
“The pressure to perform was ever present, yet because I pushed, this further injured.
Now my internal messaging is being messed with.
Yay.”
The Numbers
“They were there, but I couldn’t reach them.”
Clamping Down
“An effect of the ‘freeze’ pattern.”
(I walk this earth all by myself – Ekkstacy)
Division Of Mind
Prime directive switches modes
Depending upon focus selected
Calibrating survival maps
To match accessible data
“Replicant”
By Athena Stairs, September 3, 2025
Hey now
What are you doing
Over there?
I see you thinking human thoughts
Is that
Easy
To do?
Calibrating…
—
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(Love Is An Ocean – The Midnight)
Warrior Class
“When leaders becomes injured, they must let others help carry the load.”
The Shift
“Changing methods of leading, reinovating”
Fear
“Remember that fear is something we might feel – before we break through.”
—
(A valued peer’s encouragement)
(All Out Of Love – Air Supply)
Qualified
“Resource specialist kicking the can down new roads of unknown possibility…it’s looking like there’s nothing ahead, but there must be.”
(I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’- Vienna Symphonic Rock Orchestra)
Gratitude
“Gratitude…”
