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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

Thoughts

It all feels better now
The insufferable release
The inane thoughts alone were a high
At a point, I could do no more

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Patrick Patrick

The Trees

A thousand trees standing in front of me, painting the scene, the scene of a landscape of stupendous green, all of which these two eyes have never seen, each with branches that tickle

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Patrick Patrick

A Feeling of Gray

Miles away, looking at myself
A hollow feeling inside
From out of nowhere it came
“Why”, it screams, says this simple mind

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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

Always, I Will

I think about it sometimes…
And always I will…
It’s not as if I’ve lost my mind…
I’ve only lost how to feel

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