#rolloroberson

Undulating circumstantial

Preempted persuasion

Caught in the act

Of living

Conjured coercion

Omniscient overload

Taken unawares

splitting hairs

Reticent recompense

Lackadaisical leverage

Plastered over

Your space

Flowering forbearance

Recouped righteousness

Caught red handed

In the reckoning

Roping redundancy

Feigning fortitude

Standing with your thumb out

On the Carolina roadside

Usefully unencumbered

Passing passion

Like currency

Misspent

Did the cat

Catch your tongue

RolloRoberson©️2026(wordsandpics)

“Did you never call? I waited for your call

These rivers of suggestion are driving me away

The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed

Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine

I'm sorry, I'm sorry”- Peter Lawrence Buck / Michael E. Mills / William Thomas Berry / John Michael Stipe

So. Central Rain lyrics © Night Garden Music

Passion is no ordinary word…

The Vanity of Sanity

I hope it’s morning

I pray it is full of distractions

I pretend to cover the disappointment beneath the bed sheets

Where are the hours that fell like golden rain from Heaven

Where is the soothing sound of your gentle voice

Where is that touch that transformed torture into blissful elation

Now the emotions are like stripped wires

Scattered around flooded floors

Waiting for the wrong move

And the thoughts that convince me

I know no other kind

In the darkness of the sunlight

I play with the notions of tenderness

And the dreams

Of pleasant stripe

That paint roadmaps to sanity

Along the exposed veins

Wrapped around the consciousness

And ponder the oriented sagacity

Of constructive compos mentos

And the consequences of sanity

I pretend to kiss your absent lips

And cover my heart beneath the bed sheets of my soul…

2025words/pictures©️Rolloroberson

“I need no soft lights to enchant me

If you would only grant me the right

To hold you ever so tight