Songs, Where Demons Tread

If I Were Honest (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, December 14, 2025

Baby,

There’d be Hell to pay
For you walking away

You see,

You’ve put a harder load on me
Where our love could set us free

So tell me,

How are you gonna make it up to me?
I don’t need a huge display – just honesty

Stop being hard to get
I am tired of it!

We deserve so much better than this

What’s the excuse?

Too complicated?
Too confused?

Do you think I can’t handle it?

This lock isn’t that hard to tumble
But I need your help to release it

Stop teasing me and
Get right down to business!

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This Time Of My Life

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I had pushed through hardships
Carrying too much tension that

Was supposed to find release and
Began to right before car accident

My asking for an intervention was
Seeking help from the stress load

Not requesting next level struggles
Which now concussion compounds!

But hey, hey what can I say – it’s not
Like I had things I still wanted to do

(Wait – I did!)

And true, true I was tired from youth but
I didn’t want vital energy taken from me!

(How rude!)

I’m still going forward because I endure
But I’m more frustrated now by burdens

Making it even harder to create income
Let alone walk with confidence in smile

And the worst part is that there
Seems to be no getting beyond it!

Songs, The Crone

The Crone (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, December 14, 2025 (Early AM)

Why would you desire to
Entwine your life with mine
As my age farther advances?

Look at me – I am branded a freak
For daring to love beyond boundaries
Their voices sound like a hound bays

Women are told they are worthless
So men can accumulate purchase
As corrupt our beautiful mystery

So tell me why you’d want me
Words restore faith in humanity
When a Man has courage’s honesty

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Icy winds howling, swirling Elden tones

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No More Losses

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I can’t afford effects of the ride by
Taking drugs, drinks, or medication

That would cause any imbalance in
How I manage emotional currents

Because I am still captaining my ship
With people dependent upon strength

If I break down during financial hardships
The wreckage would become unavoidable

So therefore I do not have the ‘luxury’ of
Being someone who has ‘medical needs’

Altered States

Drug Abuse

Candid Corvid Productions

She had wanted to crash under my wing
Seeing how I fought for my own family

But she was hard into drugs and alcohol
Already with a DUI knocking on my door

We were sandwiched between addicts
And she held power over our housing

I needed to keep her out of our haven
Because she was in destructive chaos

I chose to assert my boundaries but
Helped her with parole and probation

Encouraged her through rehabilitation
But she wanted me involved in legality

I refused because of the implied liability
Her neglectful family could turn on me

So she turned to her controlling friends
Taking harder drugs so that she’d fit in

I’d a sense she was heading directions
I could not control despite hard trying

I wasn’t surprised when she turned on me
Just confirmed I’d been right in my clarity

Because I needed my sight to navigate
The quagmire she’d created as we fled

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(Title of multiple meanings)