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
No holes barred
No tales told
Until the end has come, gone
Did unfold.
When did it happen
Where did it occur?
No one knows
But
It did happen
It did occur.
~ Patrice
Then I heard the calling voice say
Believe in yourself, believe today
Believing is the only way.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Catch me if you can
I’m falling deep down
That
Hurtful canyon
Hold my hand
Grasp it tight
Don’t like let go
Till all that’s out of sight
Then
Together we will go
You holding me
Me, so grateful.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
There are no rights
No wrongs
Only
Consequences
To live with, to abide by
Understand
Choices are made, lives changed
Right or wrong
Makes no difference
For you live with
The
Consequences
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Respect, gratitude
All needed
Felt
With a sincere attitude.
Let love hold you safe
Feel secure
In arms
That envelope you.
Know
In the morning
Late at night
You’re not alone.
You have
A saviour, a protector
A guiding light
Holding you.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
I heard the wild goose call
I heard her plaintive tone.
I bowed my head in honour
Of all those left
Left alone.
On the field of war and anger
In the battle
No one wins alone.
I heard the wild goose call
Come
Come bring your brave soldiers home.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
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
My heart does cringe
My soul weeps.
Happenings in the world
Are full of sadness, anger
Misery so deep.
How
Did we get here?
When
Can we leave?
Questions – Answers
No one knows
No one speaks.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
I know you’re not the one
I’m supposed to be.
I’m the one I need to be
in my heart, my head.
All things I do
that’s who I’m suppose to be.
You’re but someone
who accompanies me.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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