Category: Songs

Myths & Legends, Songs, Vampiric Tendencies, Where Demons Tread

“Hunger’s Kingdom” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 31, 2025

Come, my love
Let us feed now

Place your healing
Hands upon my body

Help reshape my form
To its pleasing beauty

Let me keep your soul
Warm after its freezing

Let us learn to encourage
The wild in hearts’ beating

As we scale the heights
No one dares to mention

We have been taught to fear
What’s right in our intentions

Afraid we’d shatter luck
If looked into the mirror

But we’ve proven truths
Beyond limited scholars

Come now, my love
It’s time we overrule

—

(Please contact me for permissions)

A Woman's Plight, Myths & Legends, Songs

“Sun Kissed” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 31, 2025

One perfect Fall day
Cascading sun rays
Revealed before me

A figure of an angel
Forged in darkness
Brilliant in splendor

Haloed light’s sashay
Will forever replay
In nights restless

His knowing smile
Held all the while
Delighted interest

What happens to mortal soul
Once beholds the face of God?

How to repent for lacking
Chance to kneel in fealty?

Held back by fear of
Trangressing cruelly

Without a hand gesture to
Allow kissing finger’s sigil?

Ah No! – Let it not be that
Such glory’s abandoning!

For bereft I’ll always be
Consumed by such grief

Fed upon by regrets
Imposing madness!

And in the years to come my
Heart will fight but not win

Remembering love’s hope
In its bloom left to languish

—

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A Woman's Plight, Songs, Spoken Word

“Runaway” (Song / Spoken Word)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 29, 2025

I found this really cool guy
Who could look me in the eye
No matter a thing that I would say

But then I found out
He was still full of doubt
Tipped his hat and then left the same day

All I ever do is find a
Runaway runaway
It seems I’ve got a knack
Can’t get a guy to stay!

I need this nut to crack
They never take it back
The meat is always rot
And leaves a bitter sting

What is it in a man
That draws me to him?
Thinkin’ that he’ll stick
But there’s no glue

Like chasin’ butterflys
There is no reason why
Dodge and weavin’
Only leaves my heart a bruise

And all I ever seem to find’s a
Runaway runaway
No matter what I say(do)
It’s all the same

Stars aligned but not entwined
I’d seize the day they go away
A trick of light changin’ the frame mind!

There came a time I thought
That I had made the grade
But Fickle Fate
She had to add her’s too

Life can be unkind
No replay just hit unwind
Now just runaway is
Something I do too

—

Listen to Runaway – Spoken Word – October 29, 2025.m4a by Candid Corvid Productions on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/DmB2Mqp4IPUDJ7JM5f

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Songs, Where Demons Tread

Falling Leaves (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 29, 2025

Oh I’ve been wakin’ up
Under Autumn leaves in Fall
If only I could bring the summer back

‘Cause I was so much braver
When thought I could look forward
To a partner who would have my back

I’m wondering
What do we do about love?
The stars and heavens above
Are waiting

In firelight
All I can see is you
And things that we have gone through
Want to hold you
It’s true

But if we can’t unite
And give this a try
Then winter is goin’ to bite

And I don’t know how
I get through each day
When I ache for you every night

And all this charade
Has been a parade
But its gotta give reality back

‘Cause if it’s a dream
It’s turnin’ obscene
And my heart is gonna have an attack

You see
For me these vibrant leaves
In spiral rhapsody
Remind me
In every way

And I know
That you belong in my arms
The farthest place from harm
Cause’ I told you
That I want you

And when I look ahead
And you’re still not here
An emptiness fills me up

And I don’t know how
To get through this life
Without hope to fill my cup

And if you stay away
What else can I say
But its clear that I’ve run out of luck

And there’s no way to think
If I start to drink
That it’ll do anything but suck

No consoling
Because (slowing to end)
You said you wanted me too

—-

Longing’s desperation.

Chords like Damocles and Euclid by Sleep Token

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A Return To Innocence, Reclamation, Songs

“That Man” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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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Cassandra, Songs

“Even Keel” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

How does a frightened heart settle
After taught by the world to flee?

How does a body recognize
When it’s found a home in safety?

How does a mind learn to trust that
Another can pilot the wheel?

How does a soul make eloquent
Entreaty for love’s appeal?

—

Elden lovers’ treatise melodies

(Title of and content of multiple meanings)

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Songs

“Visions Of You” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

I’ve wondered about you
If inside you were like me

I’ve been searching
Far and wide you see

A partnership desired
Becoming legendary

The world as we know it
Needs love’s healing

And my friend
You and I do too

There’s no disguising
Nor debating truth

What makes you hesitate
What makes you bleed

Outside my door?
I’m willing to answer

You know my heart
Welcomes your banter

And though messy
Family’s renown

Is one of tried and
Proven dedication

To values that
We both uphold

Come now let’s
No longer deviate

Help me learn to cook
Let starvation abate

For we know and speak
The words longed for

Come forward and
Knock on my door

—

Hearth and Home Elden melodies

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Songs

“For Love Of Life” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

There are no longer legends
For death is ever present

A spectre always looming
To cast our hearts a’glooming

A jealous beast in waiting
Grips flesh in teeth a’tearing

To get at the soul – the meat
Of what makes love in life repleat

But what if we were to feed it
Garden leftovers to earth worms?

Could we somehow appease it
By felling decay in the green woods?

By tending to our planet
As caretakers of our ecosphere

Would longevity be granted
By innocence held again dear?

For then death would know fealty
By repast we all would share

It’d be welcome to extra helpings
For with plenty our love could spare

Whole bakeries full of flakey
Delicacies where none compare

If we joined in love’s communion
No one’s cupboards would be bare

—

Somber to lilting Elden chord melodies

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Elden Ways, Songs

“A Great, Vasty Emptiness” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

Well of Souls in this
Emptiness of space

Where life bloomed once
Now diminished to trace

When hearts retract
Feeling under attack

By fears’ apprehension
Or encouragement’s lack

Like dust in the wind
Remains where’d begin

And burial grounds
Are what we’re left with

—-

Elden melodies of mourning.

(Title from a reference to the movie “Serenity”)

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A Man's Journey, Athena, Elden Ways, Myths & Legends, Songs

“Golden Gates” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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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Songs

“I Found Somebody” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 18, 2025

I found somebody to love
But he keeps on hiding

Maybe afraid of the world
And of our hearts colliding

Or maybe he’s found
Some other love

But then why do our hands
Fit like two gloves?

I’m in darkness again
And don’t even know
How best to find him

To beseach him
To come home again

I need him
He’s my best friend

I don’t want to spend
The rest of my life
Without him

—

R&B romance tones beseaching.

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Songs

Writing Songs

Candid Corvid Productions

“I’m at last taking a class from a teacher who is relatable and helps make this knowledge accessible.

Lyrics, chord charts, and rough sample demos.

Three ‘simple’ pieces that an artist needs to be able to compose in order for their artistic concepts to be well conveyed.

The perequisite is having taken a Music Fundamentals class before, which I’ve done twice – the last time about eleven years or so ago.

I have a refresher book, too.

But this foundational structure did not really tell a person how to apply the knowledge functionally – nor, especially, intuitively.

Theory has been presented enough to name the pieces and then get abstract with the Circle of 5ths – much like math can continue building, but unless you are measuring something or getting into physics, all you really came away with practically is geometric measurements or how to count change, for example.

I am finally gaining slow ability to identify notes and tonal relationships on the piano.

Lord help me attempting to convert this same info to a guitar!

And I can see that if you know the Circle of 5ths, then you can somehow begin identifying potential chords by whether there are notes in a piece of music with tonic, sharps, or flats aspects.

Then, you could go on to say a note is augmented or diminished, or at a degree counter to its original position within the chord structure.

But I’m still workung backwards it seems, trying to just find the notes to match my singing because trying to write chords to chart seems to me to be not enough info to convey a song’s details properly.

For now, I’m still at the place of clarifying the little details – which might be making my learning curve more difficult than going for generalities.”

A Man's Journey, A Return To Innocence, Myths & Legends, Reclamation, Songs

“King Of Hearts” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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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A Return To Innocence, Myths & Legends, Reclamation, Songs, Where Demons Tread

“Turn The Page” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, Octiber 16, 2025

You turn the page some
Even when not fun

And you always try to do better
And I love you all the more for it

I want to know you
Yes I adore you

But you’ve got your work cut out for you
Come say Hello while in my groove

And all the days and nights
We’re tossing turning

Could someday turn into
Our love that’s burning

If only we could find the way
I’d hold you in my arms each day

And everything we fought through pain
Once death in loss our hearts regain

So tell me how to reach for you
I’m falling

I know that we could see this through
My darling

And from this day ever more
Two hearts entwined they’ll sing of lore

And we can focus upon
Our just flying

Yeah

—-

Now to capture chords, make a chird chart, and record a sample…

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Comedy, Songs

“Big Toe” (A Silly Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, Early AM July 27, 2025

Big toe
Tryin’ to ignore it

Big toe
They’re gonna wanna sew it

Big toe
Won’t let them near it

Big toe
Just keep compression on it

Big toe
You’ve got to heal

Big toe
I need that wheel

Big toe
It might have gravel in it

Big toe
How different from a piece of glass imbedded that we all get stuck in our foot at one time or another?

(please, please, please)

Big toe
You’ve gotta come through for me

Big toe
Give you aloe that’s soothing

Big toe
I’m limpin’ around ya – can’t you see?

Big toe
Runnin’s gotten much far-tha away from me

Big toe
I am aggrieved

Big toe
Pretend you’re not cleaved

Big toe
I summon the ghost of thee

Big toe
Stop pingin’ nerves at me

—

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A Woman's Plight, Songs

Phraseology

Candid Corvid Productions

I think it’s poignant how in a phrase such as
“There’s only so much that after a lifetime”

Completely understates, yet accurately
Portays how importance is diminished

In what women have been expected
To endure by patient, selfless giving

Until – if we are lucky enough to have –
The false mirror reflecting crack open

Revealing the lies brainwashed into us
Vs .the entirely different state of being

We were always meant to contribute
And get to have as part of our sanity

A Woman's Plight, Songs

“Need To Breathe” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

There’s a song on the back burner
Someday I’ll write about treatment

How men think they’re God’s Gift
But have been vacuously selfish

In how they have “given” yet taken
Projecting tepid, brief fantasies as

Using their counterparts shallowly
Leaving them wanting and aching

For true, fulfilling connection agreed
But never f***ing delivered – well let

Me tell you there’s only so much that
A woman can absorb after a lifetime

Of being ignored, hoping for difference
But ever surrounded by lazy ignorance

—

(Note to self, song titled concepts recorded)

Altered States, Songs, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

To Not Move (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

Snug in the perfect position
Almost all gone by omission

There used to be a time when
Many could be choosen from

Now nearly every one presents
Pain from an unrelenting thumb

After lovemaking the body resets
But haven’t found that partner yet

Drugs and alcohol are out of the question
Don’t need addiction adding complexion

Tossing and turning
Whining and burning

Screamimg and yelling
Are just mental blurring

Ain’t got no cure
For what’s ailing

System hijacked
By hot inflaming

Myths & Legends, Songs

“WO-MAN” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs
June 23, 2025

SHE Who WOOS
AND IS The WOE

EVER Have You FEARED
Since Your INBREEDING!

Of Course WE SCREECH
For WE ARE THE LIVING DEAD!

REMEMBER!
REMEMBER!

OUR MEN Have
Been ENSLAVED

We Are NAKED
And WRETCHED

We Are RAPED And OUR
CHILDREN ARE MURDERED!!!

(Screaming and Wailing)

AWAKEN!
AWAKEN!

(Pointing the way)

CALL OUT TO
YOUR BRETHREN!

SAVE US!
SAVE US!

Our PLANET
Is DYING!

GOD HATH NO WRATH
GREATER THAN A WOMAN!!!

APPEASE US!
PLEASE US!

HEAL OUR
WOUNDING!!!

—-

Death Metaling

(Please contact me for permissions)

In Dreams, Songs

Dreams Awaken (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

Dream Suitor – June 18, 2025, daylight morn

(Him, flowing and lovely)

You get so much done
You feel so much love

I’m taking the time to get to know you
I wanna grow old as get to hold you

With only the stars in the heavens
Lasting longer than our life’s honor

You would send me
Words so I could sleep

You’d say a prayer
For God to vigil keep

I never knew why
You were kind to me

I never knew
I never knew
I never knew
I never KNEW

Until I woke up
And looked around

And saw you
Smiling at me

(Speeding up with crowd joining “THAT!”)

And you want me
Just like THAT

Gotta have me
Just like THAT

Gonna feed me
Just like THAT

Gonna need me
Just like THAT

(Me)

I know that you
Play the long game

But if we don’t leap
How will we learn

That it’s gonna last
Despite our past?

(Him)

Give it time
Follow my rhyme

You’ll see we’ve
Got it in the bag

Will you take this ring
And be my wife

To be there every
Day of my life?

Cause I do
I do I do

Choose you
I do I do

I do

Songs, Underground

“Ashes To Dust” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, June 12. 2025

Far beyond the path of reason
Turning to leave fears seize us

Attempting to squeeze arteries
I don’t care I don’t care gasping

I will face these demons and their
Words stuffed-spilling from mouth

If they hurt your core do not listen
In this purging mainframe system

Just stand back to witness unpacking of
Lies twisted from lascivious incantations

How do we resolve and then dissolve
Without going to the places we know

Where everything has become broken
And shattered glass cuts feet to bone?

Do we continue to suppress or project
Pushing the boils to pustule-pop atone

Where every lost cause’s contorted hope’s
Reveal is accepted embraced in clemency?

I would dive deep in for you but
Would you run or stay with me?

These illusions still infesting
Scourge redemption’s validity

—

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Myths & Legends, Songs, Vocal Capacities

“Sands of Time” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, Approximately 2:40AM, May 15, 2025 (Because Time Matters :D)

This is my original. A first raw on-the-fly with fans on to induce my “wild magic” into feeling safe to come out to play. Volume gets greater, so protect your ears. Please contact me for permissions. Just getting myself to show up and start developing my vocal range capacities.

This one’s for you, my love, wherever you are.

Songs, Where Demons Tread

“Teeth” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, May 14, 2025

I could get
So into you

Leave you cryin’
Boo hoo

For when you had
Time alone in hand

Swept out to sea
Beggin’ for land

Yeah baby
Before we’re through

I wanna dive
Deep into you

To where your
Soul’s peaking

Get it skittering
Beseaching

As our hearts are racin’
For a better view

Pacin’ like a predator
You say you’ve got a tether

My teeth are sharper
Ready to puncture

‘Cause the female’s the more
Dangerous of our species

It’s true

Baby

I could get
So into you

—

(Slow, deep scintillation modes with intermittent intensity)

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A Woman's Plight, Songs

“Show Me The Way” (Screamo Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, May 14, 2025

You say you want to love me

But what do you know of loving
But pain and anguished suffering

Will you reject me when I’m happy
Will you discard me when I’m sad

I’m a wild animal and
You are still a man

If I let my guard down
You’ll see everything

Who I used to be
What was taken

For nothing
For nothing

But another’s soul tormented
And I accused of oppression

I’ll destroy you
I’ll destroy you

If I love you
God I want to

Because love is bad
I learned it was bad

How dare I be good
How dare I be valiant

How dare I be there for my man!

—-

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Songs, Where Demons Tread

“Get In My Way” (Love Song With Duet)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, May 10, 2025

Do you wanna
Get in my way

I’m talkin’ bout

Every night
And each day

Let’s talk about

What it’s gonna take and
Then break in the rules

‘Cause I’m crazy for you
And can’t wait anymore

Here’s the door
Are you comin’ through

‘Cause I’ve got so much
Good love to give to you

Ain’t no one got a say in this
Except me and you

So tell me now

Are you gonna
Get in my way

I’m talkin’ bout

Livin’ past when
Old and gray

Been thinkin’ bout

How for lifetimes
They say

Nothin’s better than a bond
That keeps us connected

I mean it now
‘Cause I’m all-in invested

You’re the one that I want
And in fact
Think we’re destined

So open your arms
Come on
Welcome my heat in

Boost that spark in your art
Arcing way past the heavens

‘Cause you know I can give
What you only have dreamed of

So yeah baby
Get in my way

Say you’re the one
And you’re going to stay

I’ll treat you right
I can promise

Ain’t nothin’ for long
Gonna bother us

Because we’ve fought so hard
To make our own mistakes

My punches you’ll catch and
Your heart’s ease I’ll trace

It’ll be me and you
Tendin’ over lucky clovers

Those tears if ever you cry
Filled with relief instead of sorrow

‘Cause baby it’s true
I believe in tomorrow

And you’ll always know

I’ve got your back
And

I’ve got your soul candy
Too

—-

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Songs, Where Demons Tread

“Make It Good For Me” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, May 10, 2025

Well
Have you ever really
Had it bad like me
You just can’t eat
You just cant breathe

Yeah
Have you ever really
Had it bad like me
You just can’t live
Without the release

I’m flat outta my mind here
Your wind’s shakin’ my trees
Persuasion’s maturation
Is summoning my queen

You’re soakin’ into my skin now
Osmosis can’t deflect
If you don’t grab the wheel in time
There’s gonna be a wreck

Oh
Have you ever really
Had it bad like me
Can’t keep my cool
You’re such a tease

Oh
Have you ever really
Had it bad like me
It’s what I need
Givin’ me grief

You’re spoutin’ out your promises
Shoutin’ out that you’re ready
Well I’ve been waitin’ too long here
This hunger’s weighin’ heavy

Obsession for your possession
Is wreckin’ like a disease
If you don’t make your move right now
I’m turnin’ into a beast

Oh
Have you ever really
Had it bad like me
Can’t self regulate
My patience bleeds

Yeah
Have you ever really
Had it bad like me
I’m climbin’ the walls
For a moment’s peace

Your methods have been testin’
The patience in me
I’m open to the question
That haunts centuries

I mention in deflection
My vulnerability
‘Cause baby when you become mine
I’ll teach you how to believe

Yeah
You are gonna really
Have it bad like me
You’ll beg for more
Get on your knees

Yeah
You will want it bad
Because you’re still aching
Itchin’ your skin
And rubbin’ to ease

‘Cause baby
You ain’t ever
Had a woman like me
Demandin’ now
You know what I mean

Oh
Will you take me higher
Like your promising
Our souls on fire
I’ll count to three

Oh
Do you really wanna
Have it bad like me
You’ve got the key
So turn it for me

Yeah
You are really gonna
Have it bad like me
‘Cause I’m beggin’ please
Make me believe

Oh Yeah

(Make It Right)

—–

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Songs, Where Demons Tread

In The Afterlife

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, May 9, 2025

If I could break this curse
I’d do my best impression

Of a recovering assassin
Been being good so long

Karma loves to play along
Smothering as uncovering

Semblance I’ve cultivated
Yeah I must be dripping in

Oceans of committed sins
For all the pain impinging

As hell’s wraiths chase me
Along darkened corridors

Screaming and chortling
At attempts of aborting

Missions of original sin
Bibles never mentioned

In bandaids for wounds
Coursing red stigmata

—

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Songs

Embodiment (Metal Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, May 1, 2025

Wild magic calling
Wild soul answers

Entropic intervention
Disruptions’ function

No choice but to ask
Into vacuous spaces

Mind clinging
To prior traces

Gripping necessity’s
Brandished protections

Must yield unbound to
Ground’s ascension

Elders lecturing
Claim dictates

Silver-tongue
Guided legacy

Do not think to dissuade
What’s been hard-earned

Right’s passage
Pain engulfing

Every cell ’til consumed
Dust to ashes exhumed

Higher callings
As yet unheard

—-

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Songs

Heaven Sent (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, April 29, 2025

Something about
The way you feel

Made my heart
Stop and listen

Asking for
Permission

To tell my side
Without pride

Following
Intuition

Startled as two
Hearts collided

Can you see
I want you?

Stumbling over
Heart’s gestures

Making me
A jester in

Your court of
Consideration

As I wonder if
I’ve got the right

Tripping over
My own shoes

Do you care at all
Or are you amused?

My tasks grow heavy
Must find distractions

To help cope
With passion

Inspred by my
Desire for you

What is the rain
Without water?

Dessicated yearning
Through and through

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