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Eric the Red Feb 2018
Just because we are friends with
Darkness
Doesn’t mean it wants to be
Friends
With us...
Eric the Red Feb 2018
If
You’re gonna run from the cops
Do it when you’re young
Young enough for them
To release you to your parents
But do it once
If
You’re gonna fall in love
Do it when you’re old
Old enough for you
To forget all the loves before her
Let her be the last woman you love
If
Eric the Red Feb 2018
I predict that this generation
Will have the most number
Of ghosts
After they have died

These ghosts will realize
What wasted lives they led
While alive
But
Still want to be seen
And
Liked...
Eric the Red Feb 2018
Single at 40
Welcome to the lurid world
Monica
Kay
Lecia
‘It’s pronounced Leesha’
She says
FWB
Pictures
Texts
‘Can you come over now?’
Veronica
Ginny
Stacy
38
32
35
41
29
All ages
Who’s number is that?
‘What are you doing right now?’
NSA
‘You want to go to a movie sometime?’ I ask.
She looks at me funny
‘I don’t have time for a movie. Same time tomorrow?’

I have just one question for all:
Where were you when I was 17?!
Eric the Red Feb 2018
There was a girl at 22
Used to work with
Never said a word
Just made eyes to each other
Like young people do

Everyday passing by
We’d lock eyes
And give a smirk or grin
I’d get home, my heart aflutter
Have fake conversations with her
‘How are you, how’ve you been?’

Told myself to gather courage
To take charge
Cause if you looked into her eyes
And into her soul
She wants you to ask her
Maybe cuddle, hold hands, Love
Deep into the night...

Wore my best shirt the next day
After a month of waiting
Those wonderful eyes
She must’ve called in sick
And the next and the next

Asked around ‘the one with those
Beautiful eyes, have you seen her?’
‘Found another job, better pay, Better hours ...’

She found less deserving eyes
Than mine
Or whomever came along
Eventually
Lost now to time...
Eric the Red Feb 2018
Birth
Kindergarten
High School
College
First love
Marriage
He cheats
Divorce
Settled for lovers
Move in
Work, Sleep, Get Up
Repeat X20 Years
Stuck
Traffic
Bosses
Work, Sleep, Get Up
Remarry
X5 Years
Old Knees
Worry About Work on Vacation
She Cheats
Divorce
** Hum
X3 Years
Buried Parents
Not Paying Attention
Near Death Experience
‘I love you My Children...’
Quits Job
Plane Ticket
Nepal
Everest
‘WeHaveToTurnBack!!!’
‘IHaveToDoThis! IDontKnowWhyButIJustDo!’
Summits
Freezes to Death at
28,000 Feet
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Eric the Red Feb 2018
We’d been fully awakened
By the thought of being empty
4am
Plus several minutes
Of being let go
Set adrift
In a ruptured tidal wave
That we’d never prepared for
Blue washed over us
And I held on as long as I could
Riptide
Pulled us apart
Undertow of time
Pebbles and wet sand
Now underneath my feet

Listen
Do you hear the tide release?
All through the night
Watching wooden ships
Crash into the reef
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