“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

Starting To Wonder

Beneath the skies whisper
Belongs this innocent girl
Lost in a sea of lavender
She plucks at purple pearls

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What You Are Is Beautiful

Alas, where had it gone wrong?
To a world, I ever bemoan
My heart, deep with sorrow—
Yet an inquisitive spirit I owned

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Patrick Patrick

The Solitude Of Sunflowers

The solitude, the sunflowers, the everything
I get lost— lost in it all
My head tells me I’m wrong
But my heart tells me the truth

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Belonging

I can't control it, it's that feeling,
the excitement,
lighting a candle in my cold heart.

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My Home

My heart, beaten, a bruise
Callousness, a nightmare it was
Challenging a crippled will
My trust, your devoted gift

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