A Return To Innocence, In Dreams, Reclamation

When You Give

Curtains are drawn as lights go down
No one else will hear a single sound
Unless we want them to

I touch your face as fingers trace
Tenderly kissing we now embrace
Joy releases our need to confiding

Free to share our secrets in the dark
How I’ve longed to feel your beating heart!
And all the world is quieting

Making space for our colliding
In a union that fate’s providing

Our souls lifted as flying
I’m yours in every breath

A Return To Innocence, Reclamation

Squished-Up Happy

She usually greatly disliked photos of herself – possibly becauss her youngest enjoyed catching her in extreme, playful expressions where her dimensions would become greatly distorted.

But her nervous tension over the subject diminished when she thought of the prospect of his features also being squished-up happy alongside her.

In fact, the thought made her laugh and smile.

A Return To Innocence, Reclamation, Songs

“That Man” (Song)

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

That man loves me
For once it’s real

That man loves me
With a heart of steel

You never know they’d say
With a jeer unconcealed

But that man’s worth
Is beyond repeal

And if you say
We haven’t got a chance

If you’d argue
Our circumstance

Well then friends you
Haven’t learned a thing

Of what makes a woman Queen
And a Man her King

Elden sass upon verdant grass melodies

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