“The hunt is only worth it to me if the prize can actually be gained.”
(Multiple meanings)
Category: Athena
(September – Earth, Wind & Fire)
The Back Of Me
“If honesty is not met with integrity, those involved see.”
(The Dreams I Give To You – A Gentle Celtic Lullaby)
There’s Only One
Truth To Face
I still love you
I still want you
—
(Reference to Sting’s “A Thousand Years” lyrics)
(The Sweetest Perfection – Depeche Mode)
The Hidden Path
It is easier to keep distance
To not face truth and learn
When one faces their mirror
Thusly ensue growing pains
But from “trials by fire”
Balance can be obtained
(A Thousand Years – Sting)
Eternal Flame
Transforms darkness
Calling forth the light
Keeping souls strong
Who’d fall to the night
“Eternal Flame”
(Promise – HAEVN, Symphonic Version)
Her Love For Him
Silence
“Misrepresents.”
(Keep Me Floating – Vibfy Remix)
In A Word
Feel me in the spaces
In between our traces
Where the light dims
And lines are blurred
As charged emotions
Petition for influence
Pulling at our hearts
Until we slip across
Boundaries long held
Begging permissions
(She’s the One – Bruce Springsteen)
Divine Ire
She supposed it was a sort of compliment
Men claimed she remained always chaste
But it was also insulting to imply wisdom
Was worth less from tried & true women
(Waking Up – MJ Cole & Freya Ridings)
Worth It
When I say you are, you are…
I don’t give false compliments
(Promise You – Ben Bohmer)
My Heart’s Dictates
For me, it will be about you
So I must protect my heart
Until known for certain
That you want me, too
This Will Never Change
I have loved you and
I will always love you
That’s You
(Lost – Tinlicker & Run Rivers)
Driven To Tears
They were matched in every way that truly mattered – and love would not allow them to turn away from each other.
The Power Of Love
“No…
I will not use love to ptomote political agendas.”
—
(Multiple meanings)
And You Live…
The Price Of Intelligence
Movie: Casino Royale – Shower Scene
“Time Repeats The Same Old Pain”
(Static Rain – Kenobix)
“Golden Gates” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
I remember you from Elden days
As a whisper upon the wind
When love was just a shadow
In a world submerged in sin
And everywhere I’d follow
Led to high cliffs or dead ends
No money begged nor borrowed
Could erase our souls as kin
And if I were to tell you
We were someday meant to be
Would it be enough to hold you
Now we’ve found this reality?
My light it’s always been you
We have followed in its wake
The purest of intentions
Our blood never forsakes
Yet I who’ve come before you
Knows youth that still debates
How much longer when so close
Before our keys open the gate?
And instinct burns the scriptures
Where the wicked stole our fate?
For lifetimes we have witnessed
From afar the promised land
In each other’s eyes in passing
Swore an oath to hold your hand
Come to me now
Come home at last
It’s time we feast
On love’s repast
And all the world
Will know at last
What it feels like
To be truly blessed
Come revel with me
Breathe in the scent
Of Eden’s garden
No longer Hellbent
Children of God
As our descent
No longer cast
Far to wander
Come meet me
At the alter
Where our hearts
Spring wings anew
I know you
I know you
I know you
It’s true
I know you
I love you
Free at last
Me and you
—-
Haunting Elden melodies of longing.
(Please contact me for permissions)
(Heart Like Hers – Michael DuBois)
(Long Cool Woman [In a Black Dress] – The Hollies, 1999 Remaster)
Pure Hearts
It has always been said that dark and light can find a true balance.
The “They” Question
“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 Beautiful Violence
“Now there goes a man of beauty and grace in commitment.”
Wrath
“And no amount of love will keep it around
If we don’t choose it
And I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me
But I’m about to bite back in anger
No amount of self-sought fury
Will bring back the glory of innocence”
—-
(Sleep Token lyrics from “Take Me Back To Eden”)
Not This Time
“I would not wish to see this one hurt.
Gods, be at last generous and kind to him.”
One Could Say
“‘Greater men have fallen'” – but rarely a man’s heart has loved to that immense and wonderful capacity.”
This Life
“I have so that I may change.”
Past Loves
Though they’d deeply hurt her, she couldn’t really hate them – for ultimately, they just did what men often do.
(Now We Are Free / Honor Him – Hans Zimmer Synthesia Piano Tutorial by Jason Fervento)
There Go I
Of all triumphs
In all of the lands
A man’s soul reclaimed
When he took his stand
Such wonder, such beauty the
Mundane cannot comprehend
But I who have lived lifetimes
Live for this name’s command
If We Committed
“There often seem to be forces conspiring against love.
Maybe if we kept trying equally, if not more so, love would overcome, afterall.”
(Eternity – David Tolk)
Embodiment
This is why the Goddess Herself
Had not married god nor mortal
For she had loved and lost
Bearing griefs of betrayal
But she did not become cynical
Although men have felt her Ire
No – instead she searched in scriptures
Heard in winds the Holy Ghost singing
Planted seeds for Trees of Tomorrow
Helping others find North in sorrow
She resigned her heart to solitary solace
Delighting in life’s colours and textures
Spun interwoven silk stories with spiders
Cajoled with Fates to ease human troubles
Only dreaming in innermost sanctum
Somehow a pure heart would awaken
Who’d be strong and wise enough to see
How the world was made for our eternity
And would love her as she would love He
While the Earth traveled peaceful galaxies
I Want
“Nothing less in relationship.”
Soul Bonding
“Not many men can say Forever – and mean it.”
Disclosure, Part 2
“Oh, that’s right – you can’t walk!
My bad…”
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