You can’t be
And
I’ll won’t let you be
Less than what you’re
Meant to be.
All the parts fall together
Melt into a tapestry
So beautiful, so majestic
Such beauty.
And
That’s, that’s what you’re
Meant to be
Nothing less I’ll make sure
You’ll be.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
Learn the lesson
You’ve been given
Accept the consequences
To be learned
Don’t wonder why
The world turns.
Your answers, your lesson
Will be learned
As the universe, nature discerns
You need to know
Need to learn.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
It all comes together
It all falls apart
Here I am trying
Trying to keep it together
Nevermore
To be apart.
My duty is explicit
My chores
Cannot be left undone
Not fall apart.
For that’s how life goes
That’s what we must do
Bring it all together
Never
Let it fall apart.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
The sun breaks
over a brown earth
Left as if dead from winter storms
But then
In the midst of all broke
Deemed dead and dying
Is a small green shoot
Emerging
Bringing life
To a winter weary land.
The warm sun gives life
Nurtures
The rising ones
Spring
Has come
As winter retreats
Only
On a later day
To blast
Blow once again.
The sun then rests
Satisfied
she has done her best
Thou
She too
Will be back
Tomorrow
To nurture, bring life
With a warm, radiating
Spring sun.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2020
No more
To be sad or happy
No more to say
Those words
I didn’t want to say.
All is finished
Completed in every way
Now is the time
To be just me
Just me all day.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
When the sky does flow
Across the land
Earth itself will command
All creatures dear
Big or small
To love
To live
Make us be
All one
No matter what voice
We may speak
Or call.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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 💓
Nobody else can ever know
All the secrets
Life bestows.
But when we’re gone
No longer here
Those secrets have a life
They ever flow.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2024
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