Times are tough, people rough
Struggle to maintain
A sense of normal.
A kind of place where grace
Is the highest trait
That we take and try to make it
Seem so normal.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Normal
October 25, 2018
When You Stop
October 24, 2018
When you stop doing the dance
They’ll play another tune.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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When I Fall
October 23, 2018
When I fall
I must get up
Look to the horizon
Never giving up.
Failure is only a learning step
Nothing happens
That you can’t accept
Learn or forget.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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Nothing To Write
October 22, 2018
Nothing to write, nothing to say
Just looking out
Seeing
An absolutely beautiful, breathtaking day
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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Sorely Saddened By My Loss
October 19, 2018
Sorely saddened by my loss
So very hard to pay this cost
Of living life with those I love
Now gone, I pay the price
For loss of them in this life.
But
I’ll gladly pay that price again
For the years of love
I’ve been given
It’s priceless even though
I know
I’ll be sad down the road.
Saddened by my loss
Is a price I’ll gladly pay
To have had you in my life
Even if for just a day.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2014
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I Didn’t Know
October 18, 2018
When I didn’t know nor find
The thing that occupied my mind
I wandered thus
Took a bus, then a train
In hopes of finding a refrain
That would sing answers
To the questions I wondered
And not be all in vain.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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The Hearts
October 17, 2018The hearts of men and every woman
Beat, pound a melodic rhythm
Breath taken in, breathing out
Lungs expand and eyes look about
Fingers touch a soft, gentle ground
As feet run full speed all around.
All this done with not a thought
Of how to do it or where it starts
For life begins and only stops
When the end has come
And the heart, it stops.
~ Patrice
© PatriceClarkson – 2018
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Hearing The Reason
October 16, 2018
Hearing the reason
With no understanding
Why.
Going forward
Believing
I’ll know the answer
In the sweet bye and bye.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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Feeling The Waves Of Magnitude
October 15, 2018
Feeling waves of magnitude
Washing thru me
Smacking in the face as it
Crashes over me.
Washing down to the ground
Ebbing back, coming forward
With sounds of thunder
Hitting high above and below me.
Stand, stand my ground
Wait til it dies down
Wth no more crashing
All around, round me.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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Save Myself, Help Myself
October 12, 2018
Save myself, help myself
Do not accept defeat
Power, strength moves mountains
Higher expectations cancel out retreat.
Now is the time to stand
Stand right on the line not looking back
Accepting the fact that I am
I am.
I am the one who has the will
The power to help and save
That person who I am
This I know, I know I am.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2014
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