Holding on, holding close
All that I love
All that means the most
To me
Throughout.
All that is dear
No more will I let go
To lose, to discard
Oh no!
Hold on, hold close
Today, tonight
Throughout all this
My life.
~ Patrice
patrice Clarkson – 2021
Never heard them say
Words seeking disaster
No, not today.
But may I testify
That words were said
In anger
Words that need not
Be said
Not one more day.
Keep them contained
In humour
Make those that need
Laugh today.
Never more
Courting disaster
Never hating ever again
If only for just today.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
Don’t know what to do
What is right
My mind is in
A quandary, a plight.
Will tomorrow
Shed some light
On this dilemma
That I’m struggling with
Tonight.
Or will I go on wondering
What’s best
What is right?
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
I saw you
You filled my heart
My life did soar
This is all I need
I need no more.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
All I can know
You have given me.
Nothing is left
Out of my destiny.
No heart pumps
Without a soul,
No mind smiles
Unless they know.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
When it happened
What did you say
How did you rationalize
All the people breaching
The Capital building
Yesterday?
Nothing, no one
Can make it seem right
in
Today
Tomorrow
or
Yesterday.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
Sing the song you hear in your head
play the tune rhyming there instead
for if you follow all those sweet words
joy will be your reward
love will accompany you wherever you may tread.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
I know you haven’t been
Fully in love
No matter what is said
What is seen.
You smile and laugh
You offer your hand to help
But still, still part of you
Doesn’t love, doesn’t feel
Anything.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2021
Let the world turn
resolve the problems
that really are not our concern.
Let the sky be blue not with sadness
but remembering memories not gone
not lost from me, from you.
See the earth tremble
cry in anticipation of wondrous joy to come
never seeing anything but a good outcome.
That’s what we should see when looking out
looking at the world and all the things
that will become.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021
Beginning a new year
A new day
Leaving all that’s bad
In yesterday.
Bringing with me
Only love and joy
Created there
In my yesterday.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
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