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Eric the Red Feb 2018
I don’t even care about words right now...just want to stare at pictures of you all day...
Eric the Red Feb 2018
She took her gasoline can
Emptied it on my branches
My leaves
My outer bark
Covered me
Doused me
And stood on the edge
Of my forests
My green
She knew what she was doing
It had been 3 long months
Without her
Without a word
4am Monday morning
I saw the match
Drop
‘You haven’t written in a while
‘Are you okay?’
Let this fire consume us
I don’t ever want
To put it out
Eric the Red Feb 2018
I struck you sometime after midnight
Mid ship
Gashed
Your seas pouring into my cabin
Berths
Icy
Green
Fervent
To my neck
And I submit
Drowning with your lips upon mine
Till we hit the sea floor
Carpathian
Eric the Red Feb 2018
You are my reminder
That my soul needs more
Love
Than my body
For my red coat
I love you
Eric the Red Feb 2018
Stone cutters cut slabs
For the Masons to form
Architects to derelicts
Home builders
Bricklayers
All play their parts
Building foundations

Singers & songwriters
Performing arts
Dancers
In moonlight

Preachers & Priests
Convents
With sisters
Pray over
The revolutions
Started by poets
Eric the Red Feb 2018
Someone you’ve never met is waking in this universe
Under the same stars as
You
Ready to appreciate
The beautiful
Words
You write
Eric the Red Feb 2018
...there’s a quieter version
...of you
...that you rarely show
...to others
...but show to
...me
...each & every day
...your silhouette on Sunday
...mornings looking out the window
...you’ve made us coffee
....and your love notes
....clash with the person
....you show to everyone else
...I thank you for giving
...that side
....I shall guard it like treasure
...always on the watch
...never to be relieved
How could I ever use such beautiful words
Against
You
My fortress in the forest
Of evergreen emerald
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