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
Lick your wounds
Forget your ego
Dust that battered self off
While looking
To the future
See what’s best for you
Feel no regrets
Lose no sleep wondering why
What happened
Happened
Don’t go deep inside self-pity
Know this was a message
Sent
To keep you well
Moving forward
Not
Skipping a single
Beat.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Fortunately for me
Life
Brings changes
Things
I need to see, to be
Fortunately for me.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Once again I write
What I see
What I’m to hear as the words
Begin to be.
Sometimes so great
Sometimes just grim
But all those words need
Need to be written.
Spoken in text
To those that need them
Those to who
They were meant to be given.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
No one else
no one will be just the same
cause as you may know
or can see
we’re all unique
never not the same
not the same as
you and me.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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
When you stop doing the dance
They’ll play another tune.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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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