Hearing words in my head
They tell of times past
Then
Sometimes things ahead
‘Listen
Listen well’
Is what they said
‘For in telling, we give you
A chance to know
Know how to deal with
What has happened
And what is still ahead’.
~ Patrice
Patrice Clarkson – 2019
Honours come
Then they go
Fleeting at the best
Don’t make them
All you know
They are in your mind
They don’t exist
As
I hope you know
In the air you breathe
Growing grass
Or
Rivers that flow
No, they don’t know.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
I heard your heart beat
I saw your breath breathe
My fingers touched your lips
My hands caressed your feet.
As my soul touched yours
I knew, knew there was
No where else in this world
I need be or rather go.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019
Birds fly in, then fly out
Seeds are there, then gone
They’re out.
I’m sitting here
Watching, watching
All the goings-on
Go about.
They don’t know
I’m here
They don’t care
About my life, my goings-on.
Cause they have
Their own life to live
Like sing, find seeds
Fly about.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Do I do it
Or
Leave it alone?
The question is asked
And
I know
The decision to be made
The answer given
Is
My choice
My choice alone.
Which way
Will I go
Which one will I leave
Leave
All alone?
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
I haven’t been
As close as I should have been
It seems life has dealt me
a heavy load
A load I think I need to carry.
Please, if you could
Let me see where
I can lay down
All that isn’t necessary.
Giving me
The time, the space
To be the one
You need, I need to be
For an blessed eternity.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Secretly
I say the words needed to see
The goodness in bad
The needs needed
To be
Loved and lovingly.
Secretly
I say these words
With
Clarity.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
In the bowels of remorse
heartbreak
and
deep unrelenting
sadness
Will strive
to come out
attempt to be happy
and
sane
Till that day
I’ll hear that sweet
sad
melancholy reframe
Playing
playing over and over
and
over
over again.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2023
No More
To Say
No more
To do
Going forward
Just
We two.
Loving
Every minute
Laughing
All the time
We will do it
Just
Give us
A little more time.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Soldiers soldier
lovers love
Peace, tranquillity
come to those that soldier on
with love
Make me not
one
that believes
not in love
Make me a soldier
in that army conquering
hatred, prejudice
giving only
unconditional love.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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