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.”
Category: Reclamation
Master Class
(Title of multiple meanings)
Pure Hearts
It has always been said that dark and light can find a true balance.
True Love: Guardians
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.”
(The Summoning – Sleep Token, Bit Of Oakland Live 2025)
Partnership
“A dream we share.”
—
(Content of multiple meanings)
I Wonder
“Perhaps I am entering some kind of acceleration effects on certain – and maybe many – levels.
For so long, I was just swollen and puffy no matter how I worked to reconnect and regain tonal tension.
But playing out the idea that one day it can all click, this might be shifting.”
(Stars – Eriks Esenvalds, Oregon Repertory Singers)
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
The Crone In Me
She’d been fighting off the crone since the moment she’d been abandoned in her fourties.
It had jeered at her in stark contrast to her youth’s vitality, attempting to hard-interfere with her plans to remarry.
Then all of that fell apart and the accident pushed her hard onto another track – which she’d been striving toward, anyway.
But as she applied makeup to her war-torn fascial contours and saw how the ravages of pain’s suffering tried to mold and reshape her to their designations, a peace began calming.
Maybe that bitch had had her reasons.
Maybe she’d been trying to ensure she’d meet the right man, in the right season.
(Sunsets (Pt. 2) · SG Lewis – Dusk)
Rolling The Die
Could be nothing
Could be everything
—
(Title of multiple meanings)
Hi
(Hurting · SG Lewis ft. Aluna George)
But, Then Again
She did have that same phone meeting, tomorrow…
What She Wanted
A very good man to lead and help support her positively, for she would give him what he needed, in return.
To Her Man
“You could have my late to earlies, for a start.”
Almost There
If he had cast his net a little wider, he would have found her.
Wednesday
She couldn’t try until that eve because she had to meet with others.
Instinct
She didn’t know how she knew, but she began sometimes to be able to feel where the notes should next go on the piano as she learned to sing vocals.
(No Distance Can Dim Our Light – Christian Loffler)
By Rights
They were just two people who loved and wanted each other.
(Sunshine – Elderbrook)
Well-Matched
For they were both so ameanable that no stone need be left unturned, and all could be understood – and forgiven.
—
(Title of multiple meanings)
Haven’s Trust
They had much to unpack, together.
Work Me
System resetting
Lacking ability to
Escape inevitable
Pleasure bursting
Tolerance limits
“Aria” (song)
A form of bliss
To Be Funny
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.
Hidden Desires
But she wanted was to hold him in her arms and give him everything.
Transfixed
His lover’s eyes
Heavy-lidded in
Shy submission
& That knowing
Smile to swoon
A million hearts
Broke her in
A moment
Enraptured
(Running In The Night – FM 84)
Challenge Accepted
“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.”
Sa-Weet! (Rain – Sleep Token, Oakland 2025)
The Little Pieces
Curmudgeonly
“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.”
Time To Hit It
“Get up, get some caffeine, and get physically busy.”
—
(Title of multiple meanings)
A Good Feed
“I managed to make my first broiled steak, yesterday – which came out a bit medium.
Oh!
The best parts were where there was some fat grilled into juices that left the meat tender and tasty!
Sorry, folks – but I have to have red meat.
If I don’t, I begin to feel sickly.
Other meats, which I can eat, do not replenish what my blood needs.”
Maybe
If she could get the jammed cervicals to release and reintegrate, the others would not be so sliding-compression-pinching hypermobile.
ReCalculating
“If hip joints are being twist-pulled forward and out away from structural stability due to over-torque tension in the quadraceps, will lower abdominal restrengthening pull back and tighten the sheaths that should wrap tight the capsules – or will this just increase the overall load?”
“King Of Hearts” (Song)
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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