“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

Still Waiting

My heart aches, tell me that I belong…
Yet it can’t be that tough, can it?
Or is the silence still your favorite song?

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Patrick Patrick

Lessons

As it rains down, I’m taught
For surely it has to happen
There is no other reason
When it all needs to stop

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