I like that my love for you has interferred with how the demons used to be able to manipulate you.
I like that you learned how to fight back and reclaim your own internal territory.
I know that it has not been easy…and, in fact, we both know that it quite often never is.
But I like how you keep at it – even when you slip a bit from time to time from losing your grip.
Because your heart spoke to me, and I would call it from darkness into the light where it has always belonged…right next to me.
“‘For Once…'”
“We are being manipulated to turn against one another.
So be very careful how you respond to levels of ‘violence.’
Even if others’ behaviors provoke, our actions in return must keep in mind the more beneficial, larger pictures.
This isn’t easy when ‘sleep walkers’ who yell and scream – or even are meticulously insidious – lash out boldly with knives and poisoned arrows.
Learn to dodge, weave, and out-strategize in order to catch and redirect them by the comfort of softer pillows.
For they have somehow become infected by nightmares from the surrounding insanity that is trying to pressure us all into propagating our own demise and self destruction.
We cannot let our loved ones fall, by others’ or – most importantly – by our own hands.
Anything we do carries its own momentum.
React intelligently, and guide to real solutions.
We must lead by our own command.”
“The hunt is only worth it to me if the prize can actually be gained.”
(Multiple meanings)
“If honesty is not met with integrity, those involved see.”
Truth To Face
I still love you
I still want you
—
(Reference to Sting’s “A Thousand Years” lyrics)
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
Transforms darkness
Calling forth the light
Keeping souls strong
Who’d fall to the night
“Misrepresents.”
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 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
When I say you are, you are…
I don’t give false compliments
For me, it will be about you
So I must protect my heart
Until known for certain
That you want me, too
I have loved you and
I will always love you
They were matched in every way that truly mattered – and love would not allow them to turn away from each other.
“No…
I will not use love to ptomote political agendas.”
—
(Multiple meanings)
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.
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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.”
“Now there goes a man of beauty and grace in commitment.”
“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”)
“I would not wish to see this one hurt.
Gods, be at last generous and kind to him.”
“‘Greater men have fallen'” – but rarely a man’s heart has loved to that immense and wonderful capacity.”
“I have so that I may change.”
Though they’d deeply hurt her, she couldn’t really hate them – for ultimately, they just did what men often do.
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