No More

No more
Can no one say. 

No more to hear 
To see. 

No more will be suffice 
To carry us through this day 
This night. 

No more to feel
What wasn’t felt
Yesterday. 

No more 
Will there be
A difference between us. 

No more you, no more me
No more. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

No More I Say

No more I say 
No more will I be angry
I’ll stay in the blessed day
away from dark clouds
ones that carry sadness, sorrow
making heartache
fill the days of tomorrow.

I’ll live the blessed, the right way
holding all that’s loved 
in gentle tenderness
no need for revenge or anger
no 
not today nor tomorrow. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

My Heart Aches

My heart aches
my soul cries 
for a time
of clear innocence 
a time that time
has taken 
to the past 

No more to feel 
to bask
in rays of light
hearted laughs 

Sadness overwhelms 
hurt
seems to last 
til no more tears left 
to sob
crying for the now
distance past. 
~ Patrice  

Patrice Clarkson – 2022

I Watch The Squirrels Fight

I watch the squirrels fight 
edging out one another 
for a place at the feeder 
for
just another bite. 

Sometimes
there’s a truce 

Sometimes
a bitter fight 

Sometimes
a lone squirrel 
eats
til he feels suffice. 

Birds keep their distance 
stay out of the fight 
they wait their turn 
a time when
all others have had their fill 

All’s quiet 

No more anger 

No more strife. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

Horrors Be

Horrors be 
can’t take them
away
away from the head 
they stay  
mentally. 

The body will heal 
but 
the spirit, the soul
keep 
those things into
eternity. 

We know we must 
must let them
go 
throw them away 
don’t let them
crush 
your spirit
your kind soul. 

Today, just today 
let them go 
no more in your head 
to fester
create dread 
let them go, let them go
instead. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

Watching, Listening

Watching,
Listening to the wind 
Wind thru
The holes in my heart 
Left by the likes
Of you. 

No more
To be the same 
Never more, never more
I tell you 
As the melancholy wind 
Blows thru. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

My Heart Aches

My heart aches 
My soul longs 
for times of joy 
all long gone. 

No more to be 
no more to say 
loving words
I heard, heard
yesterday. 

Now has come 
a time of pain 
sorrow 
my heart aches 
my soul knows there’ll be
no tomorrow. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

The Truth

Is the end the answer
Will the truth be told?

No more to wonder
No need to scold

For the truth is the answer
The truth is what’s told.
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

Holding On, Holding Close

Holding on, holding close
All that I love
All that means the most
To me
Throughout.

All that is dear
No more will I let go
To lose, to discard
Oh no!

Hold on, hold close
Today, tonight
Throughout all this
My life.
~ Patrice

patrice Clarkson – 2021

I Forgot To Remember

I forgot to remember
All the things you did to me
I left them in the trash
Garbage
Now to me.

No more will I cry
Remorsefully
No more will I be held
Captive
By those things
You did to me.

My life is better now
The sun shines on a spirit
Free of anger
Love is the feeling
I feel here
Inside of me.
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020