#rolloroberson

[rolloroberson]

Beacon

Attacking the night

With memories of the morning

With every moment

And every breath

On the steep peaks

Of the greatest mountain

In all the nine worlds

Lights shine like

A million wandering stars

Joy flows down from above

In the shadow painted rooms

Of elegant halls

Her beautiful voice

Still calls

Sounds that charm

the violent harms

Wrapped around my heart

As I stare out across

The endless plains,

All magnificence and grace,

I am pulled to the towers

Of her beguiling power

While pain encircles my soul

And loneliness binds

My every hope to

The instrument of constraint

Just short of the consciousness

Of omnipotent opulence

In the Stygian lightlessness

Of the long somber gloom

I will be the unbroken beacon

Attacking the night

With memories of the morning

With every moment

And every breath

On the steep peaks

Of the greatest mountain

In all the nine worlds

Lights shine like

A million wandering stars

Joy flows down from above

In the shadow painted rooms

Of elegant halls

Her beautiful voice

Still calls

Sounds that charm

the violent harms

Wrapped around my heart

As I stare out across

The endless plains,

All magnificence and grace,

I am pulled to the towers

Of her beguiling power

While pain encircles my soul

And loneliness binds

My every hope to

The instrument of constraint

Just short of the consciousness

Of omnipotent opulence

In the Stygian lightlessness

Of the long somber gloom

I will,

I will be,

The unbroken beacon

RolloRoberson@2024

“I got a hole in my heart

Cos I been doin' wrong

My whole lifelong I've had a bad feeling

I got a wound so deep inside me my whole lifetime

Ain't enough time

To heal me” - Sarah Marie Shook

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Recent Five

For @rolloroberson

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Thank you for the tag @monkberryfields!

Last song: St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion), by John Parr

Last movie: Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope

Currently reading: Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen

Currently watching: Psycho-Pass

Currently consuming: coffee

Currently craving: steak

Tagging @professor-cold-ramen @rolloroberson @cindylyns @musicallymaniacal @actionbastard1 and anyone else who wants to do it! &

thank you @muirneach for tagging me! 💕

1. last song: "Hawks & Doves" by Neil Young (I listened to this album spread out over two days for some reason. felt good.)

2. last movie: Harvest Time if I can count that?

3. currently reading: nothing :( I want to start Bob Dylan's book

4. currently watching: also nothing! I just finished Wednesday tho.

5. currently consuming: black coffee

6. currently craving: direction and/or intimacy lol (but really)

tagging @itbe1964, @youngshakespeare, @ziegfeldghirl, @freshwatercatfishjpegimage + @thechonkyfrog + anyone who wants to do it 🫶

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Before the Storm

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October At Last!!!

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Open Heart

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A walk and a sunset… sanity intact

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Human

It’s been 3 days has it, or 3 months, maybe it’s been 3 years,

It seems like you were by me last night…

So my daffy little heart begins thinking with its head

And misconstrues the expiration date on its emotions,

How human,

How unusual

I haven’t felt like a human for most my days,

My standards being what they are, or were,

It all just sort of ends in a heap at the bottom of an incline.

And today will become tomorrow,

And my daft little heart will go on persevering…

Uninterested in notions of likelihood and assurance,

Free of its own assumptions,

And too tired to do much of anything but move forward…

How human,

How daftly divine.

Rollo©️Roberson 2024

"Love seeketh not itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”-

William Blake “The Clod and the Pebble”