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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

I Let You Get Away

Why do I feel lost,
Clinging to memories,
When we had each other,
Now I’m just lonely,

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A Girl Of A Different Kind

Rapt in the pages of wonder
Each letter, each word, each page
Curiosity filled her old soul
She was more than just her age

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The Lonely Orchid

I felt like I was lost
My emotions were absent
Wishing I belonged
Or to someone that loved me

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Without You

The ocean underneath foot
The clouds in my eyes
I reach for something missing
Wishing you by my side

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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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Tears & Blood

I lashed out, enraged at the passion,
that same passion, whose refusal now shunned,
just to laugh at my cold heart in silence,

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Inseparable Souls

In this dark chamber filled with lonely silence
My senses register only the faintest sound
The quiet echo of your heartbeat I'm reminded
Often I recall the magnificent years we found

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Reflection

As I stand staring into the mirror
A silent reflection shows me its view
Of someone that seems very familiar
Or at least someone that I once knew

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The Lighthouse

The banks had been battered by the oceans waves, day after day, for years longer than I remember.  I lived here, so the rage of the water crashing against the boulders lying

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