No one sees
what
I need to see.
No one cares
if it’s good
or
just a necessity.
It’s left for me to decide
live with it
or cast all aside.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
No One Sees
October 12, 2022
I Can
October 11, 2022
I can see
but
can I understand?
The way the world turns
upside down
then
back up again?
Can I stand, stand straight
as it spins
never moving
from where I stand?
I can
oh yes, yes I can.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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When You Stop
October 7, 2022
When you stop doing the dance
They’ll play another tune.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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Holding Out, Holding Close
October 6, 2022
Holding out, holding close
Thoughts of yesteryear
Knowing they arrived
Played out
And
Now have disappeared.
Reasons why, reasons known
I can’t decipher
I can’t cry out
All I know
they happened
They’re with me now
Till I leave this earth, till I too
Am no longer here.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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I Remember
October 5, 2022
I remember
when my heart was full
my eyes didn’t cry
my soul
my soul could go
anywhere and never die
I remember
I remember then.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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Wonders
October 4, 2022
You have been
I’ve seen
Wonders beyond belief
Life does give us
Such wondrous things
All we have to do
Is look, see and love
These lovely things.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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The Light
October 3, 2022
There before me stands
the light
The one that’ll be
my guiding light
to a world
I know exists
Where I’ll be
oblivious to heartache
melancholy thoughts
and pain.
Plus, other things
I can’t explain.
See me drench
myself in this light
Feel its warmth, beauty
and
unsurpassed delight.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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My Heart Aches
September 30, 2022
My heart aches for the life
That could have been
The life cut short for no reason
Other than seemed a good thing
To do in the universal scheme.
My heart aches, my eyes bleed
Nothing is fair that I perceive
Maybe tomorrow sense will breathe
Understanding into all of this
Catastrophe.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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Don’t Tell Me
September 29, 2022
Don’t tell me
I must be the same
same as you, not me.
Don’t tell me
my beating heart
doesn’t count.
Don’t tell me
my thoughts are just lies.
Don’t tell me
the tears I weep will never
bring back ones lost.
Don’t tell me this
I ask of you
I plead, I cry.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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Can I Be Vain
September 28, 2022
Can
I be vain?
Laugh
and
show distain
for that
which I don’t appreciate?
Would I be judged
and
found to be a shallow
miserable entity?
Can
I afford to be?
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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