Creatures large and small
Stand at the entrance leading you in
Making troubles seem not at all.
No words are spoken
No hand is touched
No promise made.
Still you know your world is right
You lived, you loved
And had so much.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Let the ruckus roll
Let the happening
Take its toll.
All is sufficient
Some of which
I don’t know.
Let the ruckus be
Let it travel on
Like the rest of us
To find its own true destiny.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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Deep in your soul
Deep in your heart
A thought stirs
Reaching up.
Change the world
Change what you receive
Change what you’ve got.
No heart weeps alone
No mind holds just one thought
Seek the friend that you had
Be alright with the differences
You’ve got.
Miracles don’t just happen
Or are tragedies sought
Do the best you can
Cause your heart and soul
Are all you’ve got.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2014
Suffice to say
Sufficient to be
Happy, happy
Happy.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Today is a sad day for me
Today was the day I knew in my heart
My mom was dying.
Nothing, nothing I could do
Or say would stop it
This I knew in my heart
But not my head.
Anguish, fear, frightened
Looking for the answer
That would save her
Keep her here with me
Sadly, not to be.
Not once did I think
That maybe she had had enough
And wished to go
Oh no.
When I look back on this day
I see it was all about me
My feelings, my hurt
My need to have her here with me.
I said Goodbye that day
While deep inside, my heart knew
My head refused
Believing we’d have more, more happy days.
That inner voice, my heart
It knew
It knows the future and has lived the past.
She passed
She passed the next day
My mom, she…
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I march ahead
Leaving no trace, no dread.
Heading to an unknown grace
To a place I can be the one.
The only one who loves this person
The one I will become.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Going deep inside the heart
Within the soul
Feeling things I didn’t see
I didn’t know.
Crying words that have
Such knowledge
Words I need
And didn’t know I knew
Or would now know.
Breathe life lived
Deep inside the heart
Created within the soul.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Sometimes I let it go
Sometimes I don’t give it a second thought.
Sometimes I wonder what happened?
What changed your mind and erased your loving heart?
Once I was all you knew
No one else you gave a second thought.
Now indifference clouds the view
Sarcasm is the voice heard a lot
No more gentle caress, no more loving thoughts.
Didn’t happen over night
It seeped in thru empty, shallow thoughts
Taking a awful tole on our gentle, loving hearts.
Sometime turn around look back down your path
See me standing all alone, looking back.
Loving as much as I did then
In the gentle, loving days
Before the empty, shallow thoughts.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2014
Clouds part, sun rises
Filling all hearts
With peace
Warmth and gratitude.
Joy comes to mind
As day winds down
Folding into night
Star studded.
Holding tight
Precious souls
In their solitary walk
Through life.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
I wonder what
I will say
What I’ll see
In the morning
Unfolding
Just before me.
No breath is taken
Carelessly
Holding on
Moving forward
Knowing I have
Heaven and earth
Backing me.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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