You choose
To be happy
Or
To cry
You choose
To live
Or
Choose to die
Life is not
That complicated
If you listen
And
Don’t lie
For
Your heart has the answers
Follow
Don’t fear nor deny
Tomorrow will be
Better
I hope, I need
I’ll try
Now
Is your chance
Your choice
To make it happen
To try.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
When I hear your heart
Go
Tic toc, tic toc
I’ll send you love
I’ll forget you not.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019
I know
You’re not here with me
I know
You’ve been called away
To take care of someone
Who needs you
More
More than me
I know
You will be back
You’ll be here
Once more with me
When I need you
Need you
Desperately.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Holding close and very tight
A life of beauty
Now
And throughout the night
Let no one come between
Let no one see anger, sarcasm
No, none of that
No
Nothing
May we laugh in joy, in ecstasy
May we live together
In
Total harmony
May life be
Just the best
So
We wouldn’t want
Anymore or anything.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
The world is full of hate
Will it ever
Ever
Dissipate?
It festers, boils, multiplies
Spreading over
All sweet innocence
Kindness
Is
Denied
My heart cries
Weeps for the world
So full of anger
Steeped
In
Hate.
Please take it
Make it be
Not
Of this world
Not for us, for you, nor me.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Trying to see my way thru
My destiny
Where will I go?
Where will I be?
Can I make it through?
Will you be there with me?
Questions – No answers
So I guess
I’ll just have to begin
Living and see.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Sadness streams down my face
Dreams
Remembered of another place
Trying to correct wrongs done
In that other time, that other place
No help
Can be strong enough
No help to carry me away
From that sad, sad place
Today.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019
Coffee is the one
I love
The one I need
Nearby me
In the morning
He wakes, lets me see
The beauty in the world
It’s majesty.
Then at night he’s there
Beside of me
Breathing quietly, snoring
Oh so gently.
No bad dreams
Disrupt my sleep
For
He’s at guard, he protects me.
My sweet coffee
Is
The one I love
The one I need
And I will
For all of eternity.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson. – 2023
I have been working on the art for my 2024 Art & Affirmation Calendar.
Coffee is the 4th in the series of paintings.
I knew Coffee and his folks and it has been very personal for me working on this painting.
Coffee passed away last year and is solely missed by all his family.
The above poem was written for them.
Watch me create at Patrice’s 2024 Art & Affirmation Calendar
Tender mercies sweet and gentle
Lead me down
The path of quietness
Overhearing no call of dread
Just
The thumping of my beating heart
Beating love
Instead.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
My Birthday is today
My thoughts are far away
Back to the day past
When I laughed, laughed
And
Laughed with my friends
Celebrating life
Happiness and loving care
Happy Birthday
To you all even if it’s not
Your Birthday!
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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