Cold Is My Heart

 

Cold is my heart
As I face the darkness
Brooding there
In the deep bottomless dark.

No remorse comes
To save me
No salvation
Takes my heart.

Just cold anger
Seething
Storming in my mind
Waiting to rip apart.

Anything
That dare face me
Stand and challenge
This coldness in my heart.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2019

Combine All You Got

 

Combine all you got
Leave no room regretting not
Challenge the atmosphere
Just to hear the echo flowing back
Full of goodness none deny.

Then add it up
Trust it’s the sum of what you’ve got.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2014

Not All I Am About

My running is not all I am about
But it is what keeps me physically healthy, grounded and at peace
Without it, I will have no focus, no inner peace.

My writing is not all I am about
But from it, I feel whole, in touch with who I am spiritually
I feel a calm, a calm fulfillment.

My art is not all I am about
It’s what I need, what I feel called to do
A yearning, a desire, a challenge, an ecstasy
It is who I am. Who I desire to be.

But not all I am about.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2014

Challenge The Inevitable

Challenge the inevitable
Make it seem
Like you and it are one
And what was wanted
In the scheme of all things.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2012

Why Do I Wonder?

Why do I wonder?
Why do I challenge?
Why can’t I munster
All needed here in my realm?

No joke is conducted
No sequence revealed
Just me and my wonder
On that level playing field.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2012