patrick

coming to terms with existence one word at a time, embracing the impermanence. love is not a victory march, it’s a goddamn hallelujah.

[patrick @patchofvsky]

some days i’m the sound
& others just the echo

[patrick @patchofvsky]

your finger
traces our story
along my shoulder’s seam

i feel this rekindling flame
with all the aching
of our ashes

each end
as
each start

our loves last
only when “we” are
willing to die & be reborn

[patrick @patchofvsky]

in stillness
there are stars
there are bright stars
& then there are your eyes

[patrick @patchofvsky]

the edge of cold
is slicing nicely through
summer’s tired strings

& the world is red
& yellow
& falling of a sudden

it makes me old enough again
to appreciate the weight
of a blanket’s embrace

especially when winter
with all its woes & wizenings
stands there looking on

[patrick @patchofvsky]

i was the ghost glow
in that desert gale
far from my hilly home
drawn to the dust

[patrick @patchofvsky]

september tries
it holds on to the heat
flowers abundantly
in late daisies

still it hardly hides
its sleepy afternoon eyes…

[patrick @patchofvsky]

it’s a bit silly
how we say the sun
should rise or set
when really it is us
who roll around

[patrick @patchofvsky]

progress
i strike through another me
i shall not be

[patrick @patchofvsky]

i taste the leaves falling
wash away my summer sorrows
with cinnamon & clove
& sing myself into a seaside grove

my heart slows its beat with the seasons
& i love love love without rules or reason
so lay me on an autumn forest’s floor
& i shall be & never want for more

[patrick @patchofvsky]

i thought i had
a longing for silence
for the open air of nothingness
the deep pool of stillness

but true silence is illusory
just like total darkness
it is defined only by absence
that lack of something real

when my heart imagines silence
what it hears is not that…

[patrick @patchofvsky]

olfactory dreams
imagining her perfume
last stop before home

[patrick @patchofvsky]

i set out to burn myself
in infinite depths dusty black
tearsome train whistle calling
to summon other flaming souls

in open space specters roamed
shadows tween spinning lights
& on a shanty stoop
kindreds sang & fiddled by flickered wick

playing for water love & smoke
a gift

[patrick @patchofvsky]

“this is not the sound of a new man
or crispy realization
it’s the sound of the unlocking
and the lift away

your love will be safe with me”

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[patrick @patchofvsky]

@shortprose1 Thank you 🙏

[patrick @patchofvsky]

i am a voyager now
traveling towards the desert stars
compass & canteen in hand
but it’s you i carry in my heart

[patrick @patchofvsky]

limitless
i kiss the blushing
cheek of sky

[patrick @patchofvsky]

alabaster sound
freeway breathes not far away
newly born morning

[patrick @patchofvsky]

i pull strands of tomorrow’s promises
candy cotton thin
from the clutches of daydreams
they weave me into a memory
& in a wisp of wonder
i finally forget myself

[Jason Tandon @jasontandon_]

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