In retrospect
I see so clearly
The problems I had
Answers
That evaded me
In retrospect
I could have
Done things
Differently
In retrospect
I know my life
Could have been
Changed drastically
But
In retrospect
Then I would not be
The person I’ve become
I need to be
In retrospect.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2020
Feeling hurt, feeling pain
Wonder
Whatever is it
That I need to gain?
No one else
Seems to be
In this
In this quandary.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
*Remembering you Monty on this day, this day that was your last 💓
No more to be
No more to roam
Far away
From the expanse
I know
I call home.
Now is a new time
Now will be a time of change
A time to be
Everything I wanted
Everything
I knew was there
For me to claim.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Holding in my heart
All the love you gave
Cherishing
All the thoughts I had
When you were close
Near to me.
Saddened by the thought
You’ve left, you’ve gone
Our love no more to be
But still
I have you always, in my heart
Near to me.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Peeking thru the light
Breathing in the air
Magnificence is all I see
I need, I care.
No one else
Can do for me
What I need to do
Myself
One breath in, one breath out
Peering through the darkness
To the light
I need to walk, journey to
This is what life is all about.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Can you see
Where I’ve been
What I’ve seen?
Can you see
Can you see me?
I’m here
Nowhere
Nowhere else
But
Here.
Can you see
Can you see me?
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Make me be the one
That sees joy, laughter
In all that comes near
Before me.
Let me
Not
See the tyrant’s anger
The anguish of the beseeched
Who need.
No, make me
A place of quietness
Filled with pleasantries
For all that
Come to me, that I meet.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
I don’t know
What’s best for me
I only know
What is given
What I feel
I see.
Tomorrow I may know
I may climb to the heights
Stand
On solid rock
Caress
The clouds
Feel the snow.
But
For now
I don’t know.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Let me
Hold you close
Let my breath and yours
Intertwine
Let no one
Keep us apart
Together we’ll travel
Follow
Our hearts
Never alone
Never
Be apart.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
In this day of my life
I see the love
Sweetness, heartache
And
Strife too.
I also see
Wonders that bloom
Bring life
To my world.
I’m surrounded by things
I don’t understand
But
Keep me safe thru this day
I was born to.
~ Patrice
Patrice, Clarkson – 2024
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