Life is to live not just exist.
~ Patrice
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Posts Tagged ‘life’
Life Is To Live
January 6, 2014
Deep In A Wretched Chasm Of Despair
October 18, 2013
Deep in a wretched chasm of despair
Struggling, struggling to get out
Out of there
Fallen down a well of no repair
Intimidating, dark down there.
Feel the walls
Feel their strength
They’ll help you climb back up
Into a life of freedom
Happiness, no despair.
Don’t dwell way down
Way down there
In that chasm, that well
Filled with hell
Way down there.
Bring yourself up, out
Feel the rays spreading out
Warming, bringing joy
Happiness all about
No pain.
No heartache there about
As we bask in the warmth
Of the sun, knowing
We’ll never fall back down
into that dark chasm
We’ll never, ever fall
ever at all.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
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Sometimes Sadness Falls
September 4, 2013Sometimes sadness falls
So far
Desperately need not
Feel that scar
Sadness
Melancholy breeding
Gaining ground.
Spreading out
Seeping deep
Within the psychic far
Oh so far around.
Trembling lips reach out
Grabbing, holding on
No hollow
Shallow victory
But a life
Maybe gone.
Tears stream down
Wanting, wailing cheeks
Splattering near
And on hardened ground
No soft tender place 
To be found.
Hold yourself together
Hold yourself
Up to the light
For even if sadness falls
Make it you who decides
On which kind
A loving
Or hardened ground.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
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Battle As If It Is Your Last
August 16, 2013
Battle as if it is your last
Incoming, incoming
Take no prisoners
Make sure you are the last
Standing
Never show that you are alone
Never show you care.
Battle hard
Use every weapon that you see
Leave nothing to chance
Or destiny.
Battle
Battle as if it is your last gasp
Never ever expect help to arrive
For you are the only one
Alive in your world
You must
You must survive.
Then you hear
A haunting call calming wind
And your breath is taken in
As you know
Someone great Is at the door
Someone you’ve never seen before.
Someone kind has come
To have your back
You can lay down
The weapons used to destruct
You can kneel and be kind
Knowing that you’re no longer
Or ever been
Alone.
Love is here embracing you
Treating life gently
With love coming from all around
Surrounding
Making you grow
Becoming the one you wanted
Always to know.
Battle not
Accept the love
You are not lost but found
Look all around.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
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When I Get My Life Right
August 9, 2013
In The Beginning Was The End
July 12, 2013
In the beginning was the end
Life itself was not a friend.
Toil and struggle never bends
Onward, onward forever go
To time lost but you still know.
In the beginning was the end
Never ever to be my friend.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
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The Last Page
June 5, 2013
The last page in a book
The last page in a life
Written
With a hand dipped in love.
Read with knowledge
Of a end
That lives on in a mind
Filled
With unconditional love.
Yes
It’s the last page in a book
And you’ll find another one
Knowing it too
Will be written
With unconditional love.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
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Slowly, Softly The Fog Dissipates
May 28, 2013
Slowly, softly the fog dissipates
Leaving beneath me
A breathtaking land of
Oh so much rare beauty.
In this grand, lovely land
Is a dream where I could exist
Bringing to my life a magic
I shouldn’t nor can resist.
Come join me there
In this wonderland I love
Come be part of a world where
All is filled with wondrous love.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
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I Must
May 13, 2013
I must give without expectation
I must live a life with pureness in my heart
I must not judge but accept
I must just live my best.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
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Green Leaves Are What I See
May 8, 2013
Green leaves are what I see
Close by and far into eternity
Unfurling glorious green
Sometimes mixed with purple
Red or hunter green
Just to show magnificence
In the outlined sky supreme.
Glad to see leaves unfolding
Bringing life to silent trees
I’m sure all is okay today
And each and every other day
That leaves absorb sunshine
Blowing in the wind
Growing life there within.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013
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