I have seen
I haven’t been
the one you want
this I know
I haven’t been.
Days go by
nights seem
to melt into nothingness
where nothing lives
nothings been.
Still you’re on my mind
and I have seen
there’s a chance
you’ve heard my voice
you’ve seen.
I’m here
I live, I love
I am
a human being.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Hoping,
not exceeding the life
I’ve been given
the life I love, share
and adore.
Not exceeding, only hoping
to be the best
I can in this world
this world I share.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Hear the bells
ring
their melancholy sound
Ringing, ringing
Throughout the valley
and
mountains all around
Sending messages, greetings
and words of sadness
so profound
Hear the bells
ringing
Ringing, ringing
Listen
listen to their sound.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
I have been feeling
Not so great
Everything matters
But not at stake.
The life I live
Must be honoured
No too hard
Nor can’t be done.
Understand I can
And
Will overcome.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
I told you not
I told
I told all
that would listen
Told them how it was
how it would be
Now
I’m telling you all
These precious things
that have been
And
Will be.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Seeing is believing
Believing is knowing
You are safe
In the arms of another
Going forward into the day
Joyous and alive.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Don’t live your life
in a way
you know how you’ll die.
Live a life worth living
til that time, that time
you really do die.
Let joy, happiness prevail
all trials, heartache pale with moments
when
your heart bursts in joyous cries
your eyes run tears of gratitude
your ears hear angels trumpet
stories.
Stories of your magnificent life.
the life, that life
you’re going to live.
Till you die.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
Before the light begins to fade
See the beauty in all you survey
Let no small thing be overlooked
As you feel your heart pounding
In a life lived with gratitude
Giving all
No matter what comes to be
This, I think
We need to see.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Tender ones
live and become
the strength that makes us
survive.
Living life
so we too become
become
the tender ones.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
No more I say
No more will I be angry
I’ll stay in the blessed day
away from dark clouds
ones that carry sadness, sorrow
making heartache
fill the days of tomorrow.
I’ll live the blessed, the right way
holding all that’s loved
in gentle tenderness
no need for revenge or anger
no
not today nor tomorrow.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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