When I fall
you pick me up
my life is saved
My heart
also
is picked up
Safe and serene
standing straight up
I feel your presence, I feel your love
And that’s when
I race
to another
who needs me
to
pick them up.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
With all that happens
the sky stays blue
the earth
a golden brown
leaves of trees
wave
in the wind
and
I
I begin to live
all over
once again.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Let me be
Not so angry
Full of fury
Let me be
Kind and generous
Only
Full of courtesy
That’s what I need
Please
Let me be.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Lonely and all alone
I stand at the entrance
wondering
wondering should I go in
or
stay here
Lonely and all alone.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
The rain hides my tears
The sun soothes my fears
My heart knows
This too shall pass
But
In the meantime
It lasts, it lasts.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
Let me, let me be
at peace
quiet, silent
not asking anything
Let me, let me be
happy and carefree
Let me be.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Joy will come
happiness will be
then I’ll see
all the world wants me
to be.
No one left behind
no one crying
for we are all together
now and forever
til the end of eternity.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Holy matrimony
Does not mean pure bliss
All you’d hope it be
Everything.
For there are times, there are places
No married person wants to
Experience
Times that seem they never end
Everything.
But the love you feel
The happiness, the laughter
All the intimate times
Are what will carry you thru
Everything.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
The water weeps to the ground
Soaking all
Saturating a thirsty ground.
Flowers dance between
The raindrops moist
Blooming, sacrificing all
It is their choice.
Clouds thunder
Marching across the sky
No time for plunder
For something in the distance
Has caught their eye.
Now I stand amidst this
I’m part of this
The earth, the wind, the sky
All this happening round
I feel it, feel so profound.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
Not sure why
Anything is.
Not sure how
The earth came to be
Nor if it’s existed
More than an eternity.
Not sure why
My heart does pound
When I feel your presence
Next to mine.
Not sure I’ll be here
Laughing, crying with my family
Til the sun sets
On all humanity.
Not sure
Not sure I want to be.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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