Can I Be Vain

Can
I be vain? 

Laugh
and
show distain
for that
which I don’t appreciate? 

Would I be judged
and
found to be a shallow
miserable entity? 

Can
I afford to be? 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

This Is It

This is it.
Look around, appreciate and know you have made all this come about.
Without you, it would not exist.
Make sure it is good and what you and you alone desire.
This is it. ~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2011