Lick Your Wounds
November 21, 2025
Lick your wounds
Forget your ego
Dust that battered self off
While looking
To the future
See what’s best for you
Feel no regrets
Lose no sleep wondering why
What happened
Happened
Don’t go deep inside self-pity
Know this was a message
Sent
To keep you well
Moving forward
Not
Skipping a single
Beat.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Patrice’s Art & Poetry Blog 
This was so nice
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That’s Great!!! 😀
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Wonderful poem and art!
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Thank You!!! 💕
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Life has a way of teaching us the same hard lessons until we finally understand them. And when we do heal, it is only by God’s grace. I will be the first to admit that some lessons swung back around more than once for me and I still did not get them right. But now at fifty I understand myself better. I know there are some wounds that do not close as quickly as they did when I was younger. I know what hurts me and I have learned to walk away from anything that tries to reopen old pain. Because every word you have shared here reminds me of how far I have come and how much I have learned to protect my peace without skipping a single beat 🙏🏼 Happy holiday, if you celebrate this sort of thing ❤️
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So true these words you say. 👌
I always think ‘I’d never gotten here if I hadn’t been there!’
All the Best to you and yours 🫶🏻
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