Death is overpowering me
Coming, telling me
What to do, where to go
Where to be.
Death is walking beside me
Holding gently, telling me
Souls who go don’t leave
They too, are alongside me.
Death is breathing life inside me
My time will come but not now
Go live a life full of love
Fun and beauty.
This death tells me.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
There I stand
Soul, hat in hand
Searching, looking for the right way
The right stand.
Should I turn left
Or maybe right
Go forward or
Retreat into the dark of night?
No answer comes
No word spoken clear
Quiet, gentle silence moves me
Our bond unbroken here.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
We sat silently together
No one saying anything
Silently wishing
We could bridge the chasm
That that silence brings.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
I seek the answer
Questioning
The reason things happen.
While souls stand silent
Not giving the answer
The reason.
It all comes with
Living
Within reason.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
Seeking
Helping the world turn away
From the horrors, destruction
Man has played
No virtue in it, no redeeming grace
Just sadness and wretched feelings
In this place.
Maybe tomorrow
When the sun does rise
Man will wake up and take pride
In making a place where all are alive
Living in harmony not needing
To just survive.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
Melancholy feelings
Sorry heart
Trudging through the snow
Feeling
It’s cold, cold heart.
Icicles dangling, dripping
To sadden, frozen ground
No where to go
Misery
Sadness all around.
Then the sun shines
Spreading, singing like a lark
Warming all the world
Unfreezing
That frigid, frozen heart.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
Suffer the consequences
Feel the pain
Harken the anguish
Dodge the distain.
Nothing or no one
Can suffocate the flame
Let it burn, burn
Til you’re born again.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
We are joyous
Moving along, forward
Into a distant future.
Hesitate, reach down
Look around, see
All the wonders
Growing
Living by your side.
Know
You’re not alone
Nor ever going to be.
For intertwined
In your soul, mine
And all that
Has ever been.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
Seeking Gently
Life.
Nothing else matters
It makes you whole
Reaching for
Seeking that wonderful
Life.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
Seeking, seeing frustration hurt
Haunting me
Move to the left, turn to the right
Nothing works, not tonight
Maybe tomorrow the sun will shine
Clouds escape to a happier time
Taking me with them on a path fluffy white
Filled with joy gentle and kind
No regrets
For I’m in that happier time.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2017
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