I don’t know
I haven’t seen
anything of consequence
nothing that
hasn’t been.
You too
have you seen
anything important
anything
that’s been?
Maybe together
maybe as one
we’ll be able to understand
understand
all that has been
all that
has been done.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
I went back after several years, to the place where I grew up.
The place where I had many happy times and wonderful memories.
I was overwhelmed to see what time has done.
My Heart does break
My soul knows
The past has gone
It exists
No more.
Times remembered
Times
From long ago past
Have faded in my memory
But
I thought
They’d last and last.
The land has covered
Over
The lane we used to walk
Trees died
Their stark bodies bent
Cracking in the wind
While bushes have overgrown
Where happiness
Should’ve been.
Surrounded
By empty, barren fields
Flourishing weeds covering in
What used to be
Fertile land growing crops
That
Nurtured creatures
Way back then.
Only memories
Now
Only fading memories
Of what was but not now
Or
Ever again.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
You spoke
but
you didn’t say
words of wisdom
nor
great things
No, not today
Makes me wonder
do you know
what it’s all about?
Or
Just wording words
you’ve heard
but
never cared
thought about?
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
You call me
I call you
together
we will make it thru
No holds barred
no words left unsaid
for
we’re together
for life
It’s been said.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
Solely you are the one
solely
What will happen
when you
you’re all done?
Will someone else take over?
Will the job be gone
be done?
I don’t have the answers
I only know
that
Solely
solely you are the one.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
Tender is the heart
That beats
Coursing love thru all that speak
Never once demanding back
Only loving, loving
And
That is that.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Turn my heart
back
to the start
back when love
was true
you loved me
I loved you
Turn my heart
to the time
when
words were not needed
no
not then
Turn my heart
to
all the beauty
all
the love we knew
way back
way back then.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
Shaped
in
such a way
Depicting the life
it wishes
to display
No subtle changes
no
great curves
Just a shape of a life
a life
lived
celebrated
in
such a wondrous way.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
You gave me life
you showed me how
to
live life
exist in a world
that
sometimes wears a scowl
You didn’t accept the mundane, the trivial
you shot for the heights
you tried, you did it
then
you showed me how.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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