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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

It's Just You And Me

Our arms around each other—
Like the roses petals tight
We drift off into gentle dreams—
Meeting again within the night
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Patrick Patrick

The Solitude Of Sunflowers

The solitude, the sunflowers, the everything
I get lost— lost in it all
My head tells me I’m wrong
But my heart tells me the truth
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Patrick Patrick

The Color Of Lilacs

I had imagined it a dream
Or was it all playing out in time
The colors I saw so brilliant
Each so vivid within my mind
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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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