You don’t scare me
I don’t cringe
when
I see
your hateful grin
I won’t let you come
close to me
destroy
all that’s
beautiful, free
Your time will come
your misery
end
Then
all the world
will laugh, cheer
be
happy
once again.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson. -2026
No more
to say
nothing left to do
sitting here
wondering, wondering
what’s next
whatever will I do?
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
I have been
in
a terrible place
that’s where
I’ve been
I suffered
I cried
but
nothing changed
it’s where I lived
I’ve been
Then
my world changed
a light that
had been so low
so dim
shone brightly
It lit up
all my sorrows
made them disappear
grow small
and
not as grim
I’m grateful
for that
that guided me
that
saved me
For now
I walk in happiness
no matter
what happened in another time
way back
then.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
I hear you call
I see you
fly
you don’t know
I exist
and
truthfully, neither do I
We fly through our life
we laugh, we cry
but
are we really here
are
we alive?
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
I went back after several years, to the place where I grew up.
The place where I had many happy times and wonderful memories.
I was overwhelmed to see what time has done.
My Heart does break
My soul knows
The past has gone
It exists
No more.
Times remembered
Times
From long ago past
Have faded in my memory
But
I thought
They’d last and last.
The land has covered
Over
The lane we used to walk
Trees died
Their stark bodies bent
Cracking in the wind
While bushes have overgrown
Where happiness
Should’ve been.
Surrounded
By empty, barren fields
Flourishing weeds covering in
What used to be
Fertile land growing crops
That
Nurtured creatures
Way back then.
Only memories
Now
Only fading memories
Of what was but not now
Or
Ever again.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
You spoke
but
you didn’t say
words of wisdom
nor
great things
No, not today
Makes me wonder
do you know
what it’s all about?
Or
Just wording words
you’ve heard
but
never cared
thought about?
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
Solely you are the one
solely
What will happen
when you
you’re all done?
Will someone else take over?
Will the job be gone
be done?
I don’t have the answers
I only know
that
Solely
solely you are the one.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
Shaped
in
such a way
Depicting the life
it wishes
to display
No subtle changes
no
great curves
Just a shape of a life
a life
lived
celebrated
in
such a wondrous way.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
I wrote
what I felt
I felt
what I wrote.
Was it the truth?
I don’t know
It was what
I felt
it was what
I’d seen
what I could taste.
That’s all
it needs to be
for
that makes it real
in
my reality.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
Close by
and
very close
the world seems
to fly by
We watch it go
wondering
should we be
onboard
or
just let it ride
let it go?
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2026
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