Tender is the heart
That beats
Coursing love thru all that speak
Never once demanding back
Only loving, loving
And
That is that.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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Tender Is The Heart
May 25, 2023
My Heart’s Memories
May 24, 2023
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
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.
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Words
May 19, 2023
I go to write
Listening for the words to form
Pictured in my mind they come
They take their form
On the page they rest
Now said, now wrote.
I thank the presence
That brought them to my mind
Formed the thoughts to convey
And then
Without another word
Quietly slipped away.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019
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Know
May 18, 2023
I know, you know
We know
Know what you say?
The truth, the way
That’s what I think, I hope
We know today.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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No More
May 16, 2023
No More you say
No more, no more
What happened, happened yesterday
Made you, made me
This way
No more I pray
Oh how I do pray
No more.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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Times Once Been
May 15, 2023
Gone are the times once been
Memories only
That’s what I know, I’ve seen.
No more to be
Those moments
Memories
Those times once been.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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I Haven’t Got The Answer
May 12, 2023
I haven’t got the answer
Don’t know what is the fight
But standing, hands on hips
Feet planted on the ground
Ready to fight and stand
Stand my ground.
Fight for
What I know is good
And what I know is right
Guess that’s my answer
Guess that’s my fight.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019
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Everything
May 10, 2023
You have been everything to me
My rock, my solid
All I need
You have never let me down
Never criticized
Or
Let me be alone in sadness
No, that’s what you haven’t been
I love you
For all you’ve done
And
Have been to this person
I’ve become
Because of you
To me
You are my everything.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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To Do
May 9, 2023
No one can tell me
What to do
My heart, my mind
My dear
It’s up to you
Whether I listen
Whether it’s the right thing
To do
I don’t know
But
It’s up to me
To do
The best thing
I think I should do.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
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Bright Beautiful, Sunny Day
May 5, 2023
A deer came by my window
She stopped. looked me in the eye
She flicked her tail, twitched her ear
As she listened for danger near by
Then on down the path she went
No longer seen by me
Disappearing into the woods
On this bright beautiful, sunny day.
A few minutes later as I was off to run
There she lay, mortally injured
Unable to run
She heard my voice, so near, so close
Her tail flicked, her ears twitched
She tried once again to run
But her eyes were closed
Nothing worked and there she lay
Dying slowly, dying
On this bright beautiful, sunny day.
A woman in a big Ram truck
Slowed up just to pass the time of day
Not seeming to notice
A deer dying, on the side of the road
Nor if I had called the police
I had, they came, they put her away
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