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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

Together Alone

When I’d shed a tear
It was you that wiped it away
When I was sad
It was you to tell me it’s okay
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The Lonely Orchid

I felt like I was lost
My emotions were absent
Wishing I belonged
Or to someone that loved me
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Without You

The ocean underneath foot
The clouds in my eyes
I reach for something missing
Wishing you by my side
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That Last Night

A night of moonlight, gently it gleams, passing glass panes, and onto the floor. 
I sit alone reflecting, thoughts of melancholy aching
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Belonging

I can't control it, it's that feeling,
the excitement,
lighting a candle in my cold heart.
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Lost, Now Found

Overcome, straining under the nights weight, talking to what's left inside
Those soulless shadows of tainted mysteries infecting my exalted evening
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The Sin

From the darkness, tis I've been...
Since there, sin I breathed in...
When each late breath, hath no end...
Was then, I found my first friend
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Inseparable Souls

In this dark chamber filled with lonely silence
My senses register only the faintest sound
The quiet echo of your heartbeat I'm reminded
Often I recall the magnificent years we found
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