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

— William Hazlitt

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

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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Patrick Patrick

Emily's Revenge

It could have been easier, so much easier, if he had only decided on another course of action that late evening’s night.  I ponder back on it now, and a thousand words of terror still haunt my mind.  What was the

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Patrick Patrick

The Struggle

Struggle, my how this mind struggles...
Failing to make sense of days earlier trouble...
Thoughts run ramped, order it tries to find...
Ordinary to utter chaos, a blink of the eye

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Patrick Patrick

Afraid

into the dark i walk…
afraid i will be…
i wont lie to myself…
for things i will see

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