Life is to live not just exist.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson 2014

We are in a deep freeze
A deep, deep freeze
Cold does not cover what it is
Breath taken away
Frozen in a frigid atmosphere.
Those you hold dear
Should not be out or near
Frozen
Smother instead with warm
Blankets of unfrozen love.
Polar bear cold
Things are froze
No one knows how deep
Or long it will go
Don’t know.
Please no longer than a sleep
Let it creep back up
Let us experience heat
No more deep, deep freeze
Oh please some heat!
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2014



Dreams are dreamed
They’re dreamed at night
Some come true in the morning light.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013


May your holidays
be merry and
extremely bright.
May all your wishes
come true on this
a blessed night.
Joyeux Noël
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson
– 2013


Saw my heart filled
With love
And yours with such cold
Not caring bold disdain.
I wasn’t told
You’d soon depart
Or how I’d be shattered
Blown apart.
It seems it doesn’t matter
For that’s what you expect
When the heart
Is torn, ripped away.
Not sure why
I didn’t cry or follow
You out the door.
Instead I closed my heart
Denying for a time
That I wished
You would have stayed.
But now I wait and hope
And pray
That you’ll come back
Someday, someday.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

