With all that happens
the sky stays blue
the earth
a golden brown
leaves of trees
wave
in the wind
and
I
I begin to live
all over
once again.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024






The rain hides my tears
The sun soothes my fears
My heart knows
This too shall pass
But
In the meantime
It lasts, it lasts.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020



No more can I be
a sweet, loving, kind human being
Nothing is the same
nothing will be as it once was
when I was
a sweet, loving, kind, human being
Rage enrages, angers me
can’t see my way out
of this hopeless catastrophe
That’s what my life
seems to be
nothing like before
when I was
a sweet, loving, kind, human being.
~ Patrice
Patrice Clarkson – 2024

Holy matrimony
Does not mean pure bliss
All you’d hope it be
Everything.
For there are times, there are places
No married person wants to
Experience
Times that seem they never end
Everything.
But the love you feel
The happiness, the laughter
All the intimate times
Are what will carry you thru
Everything.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024


The water weeps to the ground
Soaking all
Saturating a thirsty ground.
Flowers dance between
The raindrops moist
Blooming, sacrificing all
It is their choice.
Clouds thunder
Marching across the sky
No time for plunder
For something in the distance
Has caught their eye.
Now I stand amidst this
I’m part of this
The earth, the wind, the sky
All this happening round
I feel it, feel so profound.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020