Tomorrow Comes

Tomorrow comes
Then
It ends 

Taking place in today
Passing
Through to the past 

Ending in history  
To be
Retold once again. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024

The Thunder Roar

Quietly, silently
I hear
The thunder roar

Sending a message
Down
The valley’s corridor.

Will there be an answer
Will the Earth
Reply 
Succumb, or implore?

Not mine to know
But
Just to hear
The thunder roar.  
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024

Remember When

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Remember when a laugh and smile 
Were the only thing that made 
The day’s itinerary song? 

Remember when laughter 
And carefree days lasted 
All year long 
The thought of winter didn’t 
Come to mind 
Didn’t come along. 

Then there was when 
A door opened up 
And seriousness came along. 

No smiles, no laughter 
The whole day long 
Winter winds blew 
And the heart was frozen 
In sadness 
Crying was the only song. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020

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Heaven Can Take Me Only

Heaven can take me only
Where I want to go
No detours, nowhere else
Should I go.

My journey may
Coincide
With you and others
Together we will travel
Side-by-side.

Into the future
Being what
We alone decide. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024

The World Sing

One can hear
The world sing
A song
So quiet, so lilting.

A smile comes
Across my face
As I hear
The world sing.

No more anger
Not one bit of hate
Only love flows
Freely

Dissipates
The wrong, the sadness

That’s what I feel
As I hear
Hear 
The world sing. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024

Holy Helps Me

Holy helps me
Believe the world is round
Green belongs
On summer leaves.

Everything else
Will come in it’s time
Passing through 
Biding time.

Make no choice you’ll regret
Remember
You’re not alone.

Holy’s here
On this you can be
Certain
You can bet. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024

Trying To Think

Trying to think
What went wrong
What
Was not right
Didn’t
Belong. 

My heart
Holds the answers
My mind
The way. 

Together we will walk
Into
The future
Believing we are not
Yesterday. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024

Understand

Nobody can or will understand
What has happened
What will be

Neither does me

That’s why we go ahead
Move forward
Farther
Farther ahead

To the destination
We were meant to see
To be

Maybe then
We can
We’ll understand.
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024

Holding My Heart

Holding my heart
near to me
so it won’t break
fall from joy
into
misery.

I’ll hold her close
feel the veins and arteries
pumping
throughout
my grateful body.

She has been
but never seen
light
hidden deep
inside of me.

Never spoken or cried
there 
she stays
inside of me
inside
my body.  
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024

Seven Twice Minus One

 

 

 

Seven twice minus one
Brings us to the time
Before we begun
To see one another
As we were
What we’d become.

Seven twice minus one
Only date
We start from.  
~ Patrice  

@Patrice Clarkson – 2024