I struggle to be
Someone
I’m not.
The reason I do
Can’t be understood
Can’t be
Reasoned away
With
Just any thought.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Archive for the ‘My Musings’ Category
I Struggle
January 29, 2024
No Way To Go
January 24, 2024
No way to go
No way to know
The path that’s right
One that doesn’t veer left
Nor
To the right
Straight as an arrow
Moving thru obstacles
Moving
Directly through
The dark
Sinister night
To a salvation
So glorious, so right
But
I don’t know that way
The way to go
Today, tonight
Don’t know
Either
What’s wrong
Or
What could be
Right.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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Solely Heard, Solely Said
January 22, 2024
Solely heard, solely said
Those words
That
Were racing
Racing around my head.
Are they good?
Are they bad?
Answers in between
Something I’ve seen
But
Never had.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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The World Spins
January 19, 2024
The world spins
revolves around
taking lives on a journey
the world beyond.
Grass grows, birds fly
rain drops
and sometimes
lovers must say goodbye.
The world is ours
We make it what we can
happy or sad, we live our lives
as the world revolves round
once again.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2020
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Make Me Be
January 18, 2024
Make me be the one
That sees joy, laughter
In all that comes near
Before me.
Let me
Not
See the tyrant’s anger
The anguish of the beseeched
Who need.
No, make me
A place of quietness
Filled with pleasantries
For all that
Come to me, that I meet.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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It Hasn’t Been
January 11, 2024
It hasn’t been
The easiest thing
It hasn’t been
Toil, stress
Heartache and distress
What a mess
Easy
It hasn’t been
Tomorrow, next week
Maybe
Next year
Things will be
Easy
Simple and clear
But
Today
Today, it hasn’t been.
~ Patrice
Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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Tired, Feeling Stressed
January 9, 2024
Tired
Feeling stressed
Will the pleasantries
Ever come back
Be expressed?
Questions asked
Thoughts
Conveyed
Still
I stand here
With
Quietness, calmness
They seem to evade.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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The Life I Live
January 4, 2024
Don’t know what
Will become
Of
The life I live.
Will I succumb
To
The world around me
Accept
At all that it offers
All that I need?
I don’t know
What’s to be
But
I do know I can make it
Wonderful, great, most of all
Happy.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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In This Day
January 3, 2024
In this day of my life
I see the love
Sweetness, heartache
And
Strife too.
I also see
Wonders that bloom
Bring life
To my world.
I’m surrounded by things
I don’t understand
But
Keep me safe thru this day
I was born to.
~ Patrice
Patrice, Clarkson – 2024
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Closely, Slowly I Come To You
December 21, 2023
Closely, slowly
I come to you
I feel your breath
Breathing
Breathing on me
All around
you.
I see your eyes looking
Past me
Looking to a future
With
Or
Without me?
I can’t answer
This question
For
You.
I can only answer
I want
Need
To spend
The rest of my life
In this world
With you.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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