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

— William Hazlitt

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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Dreams of Madness

Horror, absolute horror, as my arduous state tried to comprehend the madness, for I am not mad, am I?  I do however have
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The Return

The days shadows grew long
The perfect dream was evermore
My tears fell like the softest rain
Returning a soul from its hellish war
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Patrick Patrick

Walls

The abandoned house had been silent, sitting there deep within the woods, untouched by pesky mortals for scores of years, with a confession weighing heavy upon its poor heart
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Patrick Patrick

A Meeting with Death

There I stood, staring death straight in the face…
     It was afraid of me!
I had absolutely nothing to lose…
     And it too, it had not a single thing to gain
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Patrick Patrick

Voices

A dream- it couldn’t have been
For everything felt so real
And if my eyes were shut
Would not the anxiety be less
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Patrick Patrick

The Last Touch

When it’s time, I’ll do the right thing
Until then, I want to steal every last second
Just like stealing that first kiss, my heart pounded so
It’s been years, and you’re all that I’ve ever known
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Patrick Patrick

Emily's Revenge

It could have been easier, so much easier, if he had only decided on another course of action that late evening’s night.  I ponder back on it now, and a thousand words of terror still haunt my mind.  What was the
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The Maiden of the River

Holding her pale body, caressing her, but a lost cause this was, long before she was mine.  It wasn’t what I had just witnessed, but the thoughts ravaging my suffering state, a state so excruciating that I felt nothing
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