The trouble with loving is that you need to love. ~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013



Danger! Beware!
Close by is a snare
Ready to catch you
Ready to draw you in
To make a life filled
With sadness and chagrin.
Please be aware
Please don’t go or dwell there
Your life is worth more
A thousand times more
This I must share
I really do care.
Danger! Beware!
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013



Tremendous feelings
Tremendous help
Moving thru a time
That does not overlap
With heartache, sorrow
Or anything else like that.
Just a tremendous time
To feel
A tremendous time
To be alive.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

Gold that gleams
I may not have
A butler, chauffeur
Do not wait on me
Nor a super jet does not fly
Me all alone across the sky.
This I’ve never known.
I do have riches far and wide
Far exceeding all that gleaming gold
Rich in life, filled with love
Friends and those who hold me up.
This I know is far better than
All that drips in gleaming gold
This I know
I have been told.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2013


I’ll dream a dream tonight
A dream everyone would like
A dream full of happiness and delight
A dream all hope to dream tonight.
I’ll dream that dream tonight.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013