“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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Patrick Patrick

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

This I Know

It was void, void of anything except my mind
My mind and my own memories
For my body didn’t exist
Or had it ever

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Patrick Patrick

Waves

The waves crash over me, revealing the memories, memories of a time when things were magnificent, and I believed in angels. For, I got to hold one

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The Burning

Oh my, how it burns
As if it's on fire
It doesn't happen often
Maybe once every hour

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