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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

Until That Day

Until that day,
I was a depressed boy—
An anxious boy—
Beaten down by my own mind
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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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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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The Beast

My hands, they were shaking
My anxiety had beaten me down
I did my best to ignore it
Yet, it knew when I was around
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The Game

“Answer me one thing”, I asked the old man that day…
“What scares you the most?”
“Is it life, or is it death that you fear?”
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Ariel

This winters eve, almost two years ago
An unfathomable lady, is a story now told
It was fast and hard, that I did fell
A miracle of nature, her name, Ariel
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