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1d
Beyond
Patrick 1d
I'm terrified that my faith in you is blinding me to a cruel reality waiting around the corner.
I'm petrified by the rain;
Gushing torrents of blackened dots that pierce a blue membrane;
The dawn will come,
Red light that washes away the rain...
Melodies of a cold and viscous nature echo throughout a green landscape eroded into a rocky expanse;
Wit, like a crop ready for harvest,
Is exposed to the plague of locusts,
The primal fear of instinct fighting logic;
Is there truth in the Alpha or the Omega?
The blue skies stretch endlessly,
But beyond them lies an even larger abyss.
Patrick Feb 28
Black mirror reflects rain-filled skies;
A picture of you,
Just one...
No, five...
An entire album,
And by this time...
The black mirror is flooding from my eyes.

Three years is so long;
I should have moved on.
Three years is so long,
But it's all still so wrong.

Something missing...
Is this a heart?
Something gone;
It's all so dark...

I hear a scream,
Was it mine?
I shake my head;
Black mirror time.

The rain hasn't stopped since you left.
Hidden behind two clouds that seem...bereft?
Raise my head towards the sky;
It's all so dark...
Isn't it day time?

Eclipsed by grief;
Black mirror still shines.
I lower my head,
And return back in time.
May 2024 · 133
Carpe Draconem a Deo
Patrick May 2024
I was a snake slithering on the ground,
For time untold before I was found:
By some sparkling-haired deity beyond beauty's bound;
I remember emerald eyes within an ocean round,
The warmth of her smile threatened to brown,
The strength of her soul I felt magnetically bound;
Picked me up and healed my legs;
Then with a kiss she flew away.

So now I grow wings,
To learn to do the same.
Mar 2024 · 126
683 Days
Patrick Mar 2024
It's been nearly two years since the last night we spent..
A pitiful attempt that I can only lament,
As I recollect the frightful prospect...
That the last night in heaven was one spent acting undead.

I was a hollow, masked up fool,
Daunted by the very thought of you;
Onto autopilot I go; Drool;
Both from lack of thought,
And thoughts of you.

How do you do?
Is that too rude?
Why did you leave?
Is that too?

Answers swirl around and bake a mind
That can't make it up to temp in time,
And so half-way these thoughts would stay.
Until the day she finally had the gall to say,
The answer that I knew is fate:

But hate it all, just the same.
Feb 2023 · 467
December Rose
Patrick Feb 2023
Your love is oxygen in a flooding mind.
Life support denied,
Yet still we try.
A breath of life taken a bit too far,
A breath of might as we fight the world.
The water recedes as love does grow,
Pressures exceed anything I'd come to known,
Encompass me,
Breaking bone,
And as I heal,
I heal surrounded by my home.
Jan 2023 · 455
Goodness Cut It?
Patrick Jan 2023
I had been just good,
For goodness sake and none else,
Until I met you.
Goodness lacks a cut. Or does it?
Jan 2023 · 294
On my Mind
Patrick Jan 2023
We are all part of a whole,
But you complete me.
We are all in this together,
But you are my partner.
We all survive,
But with you it's life.
Nov 2022 · 210
Reverse Time, Rewrite Mine
Patrick Nov 2022
For rainy days that last a lifetime..
I thought this mask was mine.
The voice that spoke,
So cold and thickly slow,
A defense against the world I know,
A trick so deep,
I myself deceive,
Until you show me
You lifted my burdens,
You shouldered my strife,
And from beneath it came a cry.
The inner voice that spoke white truth,
The one being suffocated since my youth.
The inner voice that screams out love for you...
To be read first top to bottom, then bottom to top
Jul 2022 · 563
A Grief Sigh
Patrick Jul 2022
Vivid memories of you: just a word or phrase.
Hiding meaning like a yolk in an egg.
A "Hello kitten",
A cheeky laugh,
The brightest smile,
I miss our past.
Jul 2022 · 2.0k
But a Shadow
Patrick Jul 2022
When I was but a shadow,
You saw through my disguise.
You saw my mind,
Looked past the blight,
You held me close,
Untied this rope,
And retied into a neat red bow:
Uniting mind, body and soul.
Patrick Apr 2022
First one death,
The Old destroyed.
Reborn anew,
Unto two,
Those two combined,
And with it life.

He has read the holy scriptures,
He's learned the myths abroad.
He's lived and breathed among every star,
Yet still He felt so lost.

He's seen the Cosmic Maw,
He's wandered the Abyss,
He's looked under every grain of sand,
But even still,
Somehow He missed.

Until that night,
A blinding light?
This lady?
Nay?
This Heavenly Light?

She extended her hand,
Her smile like a sun,
and embraced this lost creature,
Who had been born on the run.

She was human and more, Broken and healed.
She was a beautiful unknown in a world of guilt.
She was a treasured sunrise over a blossoming world,
She was the most amazing thing I have ever felt, held or heard.

My philosopher's fire,
My alchemical catalyst.

As if suddenly articulate,
I could embrace those around.
I learned of more than survive and drown;
I learned more of myself.

The groundwork finally laid,
With equal parts Her help,
He finally was here to stay.
I could finally live and play.

First one death,
The Old destroyed.
Reborn anew,
Unto two,
Those two combined,
And with it my life.
Jan 2022 · 593
Theory/Practice
Patrick Jan 2022
Life was all just theory,
Until you flowed into my life.
Life is now more practical,
Thanks to that shining light.

We parted ways so soon,
But still I see your light.
More radiant than a Sun,
Always brightening my life.

My life is now all practice;
No more theory, fear, or spite.
My life is all the better,
Thanks to that girl:
My Link to Light.
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