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

— William Hazlitt

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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Patrick Patrick

Dancing with an Angel

As she glides across the dance floor
It's the most beautiful waltz I've seen
From the distance, all this breath taken
An angel soaring, soaring without her wings

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Cemetery Song

A dance in the darkness, a chilly moonlit night
A cemetery of ghosts, parades of past life
Melodies of loneliness, songs they shall sing
Hearts that still beat, if only in dreams

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Patrick Patrick

Blame

I want to scream out...
I want to call your name...
I want to be there...
I want to be your blame

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Patrick Patrick

Inside Out

Is it all that it was meant to be, or is already was…

Did I really get this far, when things were already done…
I recall the light shining, in the middle of the night…

Wishing that the screams inside, would come out into sight

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Shadows

As the sunlight rises from below the lowest of the lowest sky…
Darkness softly recedes, turning sights into each days surprise…Dewing drops glisten like stars of the night that too soon expired…
Creatures start singing, singing songs of solitude and lives tried

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Patrick Patrick

The House Across the Street

The house across the street, oh it does hold a spell
For those that have survived there, speak but don't tell
From others I've heard macabre stories, it's horror and hell
Witnessed, I have, the downfall of things that didn't end well

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Patrick Patrick

Time, Sweet Time

We have time, nothing but time…
Our years are young, nothing but time…
Days we rise, future bright in our eyes…
Breath by deep breath, future bright in our eyes

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The Stranger

Late is the hour, a serene night of reading inside
Jump to my feet, a witness to a movement of surprise
Slowly transcending my room of three candles lit
A fateful glance out my window, didn't well sit

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