Close by
Then far away
My thoughts travel
Travel
Throughout the day.
I wonder
Will they be right?
Will they say the truth
Or
Will they lie?
Will they protect
The ones I love
Make them laugh
Not
Make them cry?
Questions I ask
Thoughts I wonder
Throughout the day
Close by
Then far away.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Seems
No one is listening
To what I say.
Let it go, let it be
Resting in the knowledge
I am here, I am all
I have to be.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019
Hold me close, let me go
No more to see the agony
Keeping me all alone
Destitute
Far from where I want to be
Hold me
Hold me then let me go
Trusting I’ll find my way
No matter where the path may lead
Where I need to go.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Hearing all
The reasons
Seeing what’s
Dropped between
The seams.
My heart
Does answer
The questions not asked
Haven’t yet been.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Comings and goings
Will always be
Bringing good, leaving bad to be
Somewhere
That can’t hurt one lonely soul
Who needs comfort
Love and security.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Quietly
I hold you dearly
Singing songs of love
So clearly
Cherished by those that hear
The melody
Quietly
I say words that hold you close
Words of wisdom for love
For
I love you
Oh so much, the most
Quietly
I walk away
Never looking back
Never saying
Or
Waving goodbye
Quietly
I disappear from your life
For
You have learned
All that’s needed.
Quietly
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Hope is all I have
To get me through the day.
Hope that all the bad
Will disappear like yesterday.
Hope I have the strength
To stand tall and say.
I am good
I am the best
I am all I need
I will leave the rest.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019
Feel the beginnings
The fall away to the end
Rejoice in starting
Know blessings have come
And then
Join the journey
Follow it all the way
Right to
The final, the finishing
The end.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
We know we don’t know
Know much of anything
We think we do
We’re sure
Absolutely sure we do.
But
The truth is
It’s not much
At all.
If we look to the skies
The ground beneath our feet
Do we know what’s there
Where it lives, forms and dies?
We don’t know
We really
Really don’t know
Don’t know
Much of anything.
That’s what I think
I think
I don’t know.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Anger boils, seethes deep within
Harbouring frustration
Never to be rectified
Only to
Start all over again.
Piece together the reason why
Look it straight
Straight
In the face, the eye
Don’t deny.
Then let it go
Let it pass
It’ll not be part of you
Unless
Unless you ask.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson -2023
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