Delicately said
The words come out
Saying things
Leaving no doubt.
There is a God
He lives right here
His breath is felt
He’s very near.
Words said
Heal a broken heart
Like falling rain
Never to be lost again.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
No words to say on this terrible, terrible day
My heart, my thoughts are with you
Those who have lost so much.
Remember their laugh, their jokes
Their expertise in playing hockey
Winning, skating, scoring
Checking, hat trick touch
They did it all.
They stand with you still
Holding up, holding close
You, their folks.
Til you too can come
To their fantastic playoff game.
You’ll watch them score
No heartache anymore
A team unsurpassed
Watch them play
Winning in your hearts today
A love you’ll never lose
No more.
~ Patrice
My prayers are with you the family, friends, those who knew the ones on the Humboldt Bronco bus, whose lives were tragically cut short on Friday.
May they rest in peace and love. ❤
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
It fell from the sky
Crashed to the earth
A spaceship from somewhere
Maybe the past
Resting now
In a soft bank of snow.
Who knows who they are?
Where they’ve been
And where they’re yet to go
Now impaled
Stuck in the snow.
Will they go in reverse
Back to the sky
Disappearing from earth
In the dark of the night?
Going forth to the future
In a blaze of hot light?
Then again
They could melt into the snow
Part of the crowd, no one to know
Not born or raised here on earth
But from a place we don’t know.
There are those who’ll say
“It’s an icicle deep in the snow
Fell from the eavestrough
Succumbed to gravity’s pull”.
As for me, I just don’t know.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2014
This day is today
It’ll be tomorrow
Yesterday.
Can’t live without it
Yet see it pass away
Becoming a time in
Yesterday.
No longer tomorrow
Now today I’m living
Yesterday.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
I don’t know the answer
Even as the question
Isn’t asked.
The flow knows the answer
It leaves it on a bed
Of relevance
Fearing nothing
Only feeling dread.
I don’t know the answer
But not to say the answer
Isn’t in my head.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Creatures large and small
Stand at the entrance leading you in
Making troubles seem not at all.
No words are spoken
No hand is touched
No promise made.
Still you know your world is right
You lived, you loved
And had so much.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Let the ruckus roll
Let the happening
Take its toll.
All is sufficient
Some of which
I don’t know.
Let the ruckus be
Let it travel on
Like the rest of us
To find its own true destiny.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
~ Photo by Patrice
Deep in your soul
Deep in your heart
A thought stirs
Reaching up.
Change the world
Change what you receive
Change what you’ve got.
No heart weeps alone
No mind holds just one thought
Seek the friend that you had
Be alright with the differences
You’ve got.
Miracles don’t just happen
Or are tragedies sought
Do the best you can
Cause your heart and soul
Are all you’ve got.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2014
Suffice to say
Sufficient to be
Happy, happy
Happy.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Today is a sad day for me
Today was the day I knew in my heart
My mom was dying.
Nothing, nothing I could do
Or say would stop it
This I knew in my heart
But not my head.
Anguish, fear, frightened
Looking for the answer
That would save her
Keep her here with me
Sadly, not to be.
Not once did I think
That maybe she had had enough
And wished to go
Oh no.
When I look back on this day
I see it was all about me
My feelings, my hurt
My need to have her here with me.
I said Goodbye that day
While deep inside, my heart knew
My head refused
Believing we’d have more, more happy days.
That inner voice, my heart
It knew
It knows the future and has lived the past.
She passed
She passed the next day
My mom, she…
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