Don’t let me say
The words I don’t want to hear
Please let me speak the words
That’ll guide me away
Far away from here.
Let me do
What needs to be done
Let it be something beautiful
And nothing
I would want undone.
That is all I ask
That is all I can do
Let me be happy
With these words, these things
I will, I can do.
~ Patrice
@Patrice clarkson – 2023
Quietly, softly the breath intakes
listening
to the heart
explodiate
Kaboom, Kaboom
The legs take their feet for a walk
while
the arms hold close the hands
caressing the softness
of love
seen by the eyes
as
the ears listen
to
the quiet heart
go
Kaboom, Kaboom.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2019
No more to see
To feel
My heart is full
Loaded with sweet, kind
Tender thoughts
That’ll carry me through
Whatever happens
Whatever
My arms embrace
My mind has captured, caught.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
No one holds me close
No one
Holds me tight.
Instead I lay
Alone
Throughout
The long, cold lonely night.
Will there be someone?
Will they love me tender
Hold me close
Hold
Me tight?
I can dream
But
Will it ever be
On
This long, cold lonely night?
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
When I’m here
Then
When I’m gone.
The world will still spin
Birds sing songs
Grass turn green
And
Rivers flow.
Even if I’m gone
The world still turns
It spins
Still spins around.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
I feel you close
I feel you here
With me
No more alone
No more crying
Endlessly
My heart pounds in ecstasy
My eyes cry tears of joy
My arms embrace your very essence
I have you close
I feel
I know you’re here
With me.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Caught in the midst
of
all I see
drifting
with the spirit that
guides me.
When my destination
comes into view
will I stand or run
or
will I
wait for you?
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019
No matter the place
No matter
Where I’ve been
The world remains round
It comes round, around again.
Have I been here before?
Will I come back again?
Questions
Answers only answered
As they come round
Around
Once again.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Sometimes
Things get old and stale
Sometimes
We wonder what ever
Will prevail
But then
Without a trace
The world comes into focus
We feel blessed
We feel as if nothing ever
Could be wrong
All is new, shiny
And
So very strong,
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Let me not hold you close
Let my eyes not see
The beauty in your sweet being
Let me be all alone
Not near
Or
A part of anything.
Then I’ll know
How much I have
Then
I’ll be oh so glad
You’re in my life
I have a life
That’s perfect and mine to live
To have.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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