You heard me call
I didn’t say words needed
Not yesterday.
All was lonely, all was not right
You heard me call but turned away.
Words stung, they torn away
A facade built up way before today.
You heard me call and laughed away
The sights envisioned for tomorrow
Created just today.
I have stopped, I call no more
For words must be by someone else
It’s not my work, not anymore.
~ Patrice
Patrice Clarkson – 2021
I seek and find
A world full of happiness
Wonder
There I find.
No sorrow, sobs
Cries of destitute
Nor does anger find a place
To prey.
For in this world of magnitude
My heart’s taken away
My soul alive
Oh, how beauty thrives.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
Memories
Memories come flooding back
Some with remorse
Some with a laugh track.
I don’t know if anyone else
Remembers it like that
But I remember
Memories
Just like that.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
Hold it still and very close
Feel the love refrain floating everywhere
Know the heart holds the claim
To tell wonders not yet explained.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
I sit here and write
Of a time gone bye
Of a time when laughter
Reached
Hit the sky.
When smiles
Were all you needed
To be
To be happy and carefree.
But that time has passed
That time has gone
The world is dark
Sorrow
Misery all around.
Maybe tomorrow
A time will come
Full of laughter
Happiness
All good things to come.
I will live there
I will survive
I will taste good times
They’ll be mine once again
Soon and in
The sweet bye and bye.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
Sweet Sorrow in your passing Shirley
❤️ Rest in Peace dear Sister of Life ❤️
My heart aches
My soul longs
for times of joy
all long gone.
No more to be
no more to say
loving words
I heard, heard
yesterday.
Now has come
a time of pain
sorrow
my heart aches
my soul knows there’ll be
no tomorrow.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
Sleepy tired
Worry wakes me in the night
Toss turn
Feeling no sleep
As anguish plays on my sleepless stage
In a darkness with no saving light.
Maybe in the morning
All will be clear
A path opening up, a way from here to there
But tonight greeted with only so many questions
Keeping me sleepy tired
In a dim, dark hopeless night.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
Let no man see the turmoil
Boiling inside of me
Let it be something to handle
Not take control
Of all of me
Joy and gratitude
Are the ones I want to see
For they will take me
On a journey full of happiness
Just for me.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
Holding down and very still
As the world moves round
Round
Revolving forever
Never still.
Will I fall off
Or
Hold on
Grasping threads
Of what’s to come?
Hardly know
Just holding on
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
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