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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

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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The Love I Knew

The soft drops of rain fell-
Each drop a reflection of her
A flood they could have been-
While still my memories more
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My Tell

Where does it go, my, oh my flawed mind
Not a safe place, searched, I have before
The voices warn me, they warn of its kind
I here wander, checked all, each a door
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Winter Missing

Not a snowflake fell
Leaves rustle about
Gentle, cool rains
It was all that came
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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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Tears & Blood

I lashed out, enraged at the passion,
that same passion, whose refusal now shunned,
just to laugh at my cold heart in silence,
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An Ordinary Mind

My mind was absent.  Sometimes, I wonder if it ever really existed?  I try to think back upon more carefree times, but of those I can't
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Demons

Each demon laughing, each taking its turn
Breaking down my spirit
For which now it yearns
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