You haven’t been
The best person I’ve ever seen
But
Have become
The best person that you need to be.
Kind, generous and sympathetic
You are
You be.
No one else is the same as you
You are the best
The best
You can and need to be.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
No one believes
And
I can’t see
The solution, the remedy
To
What ails the world
And
Unfortunately me.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Seek to find
The answer
Pleased
To know today
I have
The directions
To navigate all obstacles
To journey
Find my way.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
This morning comes alive
Breathing new life
In the day
The moment
Throughout all waking hours
To
Evening night.
Never speaking
Of
What must be done
What should be
Left behind.
Only moving through
The day
Bringing everything
To evening
Where to rest, sleep
In the quiet
Peaceful night.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Hold me close
Don’t let me be
Sacrificed
To the dragons of eternity.
Let me see
Beauty, harmony
In the world all around
Surrounding me.
Cherish, nurture those that grow
In the shadow of greatness
Growing as they must
All alone.
But
Lovingly supported
By me, by us that hold them
Forever close.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Cannot see
Nor
Can I feel
The essence of the world
All seems so
Very, very still.
I wonder why
I ask the question
To the quiet presence
But
Still, still.
Nothing says
The why
Nor can I feel
All is
Very, very still.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
No one will be
No one can be
In the same time, place
Ever
Ever as me.
It may be tomorrow
Or
The day after that
I’ll be in heaven
Smiling down
On all this, all that.
Where I’ll be wondering
Why I cared
If no one
was in the same time, place
As me.
Like today
I’ll be wondering
Just wondering all this
And
Of course, all that.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Working on what’s right
On
What to say
When everything comes to light
When all see
What completes the day.
Then
I’ll have the words
That’s when I’ll know
What to say.
This is what I tell myself
Worried, I’m lying
Worried
I don’t really know
What’s right
Or
What I need to say.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
No one tells me
No one says
The words I need to hear
Need inside my brain
My head.
They are out there
They have been said
Just not to me
They still do not live here
Within my body
Within
My questioning head.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Beauty and tolerance are key to me
For a life full
Of
Love and majesty.
Let me
Keep on this path
Let me be in love with life
No matter what comes to be.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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