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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

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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Patrick Patrick

The Demons

A split-second decision, my fate was decided then, as it all came together, it no sooner fell apart, with thoughts of dementia, masquerading was soon to start, gradually emerging

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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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