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

— William Hazlitt

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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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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Patrick Patrick

Lost In My Thoughts

The flowers speak for me
With their colors so bright
Lost in my thoughts
I’m only able to write

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Patrick Patrick

It's What I Live For

I want to forget those days
But I can’t— My mind it replays
Each decision— The thoughts of mistakes
And how it all makes my heart ache—

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Now, Let Me Go

As my mind would began to race,
And the confusion quickly set in
I knew of only one place,
It was a place I’d often been

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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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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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Patrick Patrick

Wanting

The things that occupy my troubled mind
Those things right there in front of me
It is that which I pine the most often for
At night, I lie there awake, just trying to sleep

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